Description
The Limited Editions Club edition of Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant.
Quarto, ix, [3], 266, [2]pp. Blue decorated cloth, title stamped in gilt and white on spine, with publisher’s blue-and-cream slipcase. Includes the paperwork and Monthly Letter Number 412 from the Limited Editions Club. One of 1,500 numbered copies signed by illustrator Bernard Lamotte on the limitation page, this being number 85. With an introduction by Alec Waugh and color illustrations after paintings by Lamotte.
Originally published in France in 1885, Bel-Ami follows Georges Duroy’s social ascent through journalism, seduction, and ambition in Third Republic Paris.
