LES SEPT PECHES CAPITAUX. L'Orgueil. La Duchesse, PAR EUGENE SUE, ALP. LEBEGUE, IMPRIMEUR-EDITEUR, BRUXELLES, 1848, TROISIEME VOLUME
 
[English: THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS. PRIDE. DUCHESS BY EUGENE SUE ALP. LEBEGUE, printer and publisher, BRUSSELS, 1848 THIRD VOLUME].

Marbled paper over boards with spine leather & corner tips with NO cover title. The brown endpapers appear to be recased, with a newer 1-1/4 top section of the Half-Title page attached. Some light, moderate rub marks to cover and cover edges. Mild scattered foxing, otherwise clean and clear text pages. 5-3/4 x 3-3/4 with 139 pages. Written in French. Rare!

Eugène Sue, pseudonym of Marie-Joseph Sue (1804-1857), French author of sensational novels of the seamy side of urban life and a leading exponent of the roman-feuilleton (“newspaper serial”). His works, although faulted for their melodramatics, were the first to deal with many of the social ills that accompanied the Industrial Revolution in France.