Crown octavo, 11 volumes (of 12, lacking the first volume of 'Nana'), very well-illustrated with numerous etched plates after paintings by Auguste Francois Gorguet, Louise Malteste, Alcide-Theophile Robaudi and Pierre Vidal. Superbly bound in full burgundy levant morocco, extensively hand-tooled in gilt, with small circular turquoise morocco onlays to the corners of each front board; series title ('Rougon-Macquart Edition') at the foot of each spine; inner gilt dentelles; top edges gilt, others uncut; title of 'La Curee' is mispelt 'La Curre' on the spines and title pages (but not on the half titles); Provenance: with the ex libris book plate of E. A. Matison [possibly Dr E. A. Matison, President of the Adelaide Hebrew Congregation who moved to Australia in 1910] in each volume, very faint tidemark to top corner of at least a few laves in most volumes, nut nevertheless a handsome set in excellent condition overall. Number 160 of 1000 sets of the 'Library Edition' with the etchings on Japan paper', comprising unexpurgated translations of six novels from Zola's sweeping Rougon-Macquart novel cycle. The stated aim of the Lutetian Society was 'to issue to its members translations of such representative master-pieces of fiction by Continental authors as are unprocurable in England in an unmutilated rendering'. This appears to be an early American stereotype reissue. [Philadelphia], 'Printed for subscribers only from the plates made by the Lutetian Society' [by George Barrie & Son, circa 1924], undated but circa 1920s. * La Curre (2 Vols), L'Assommoir (2 Vols), Nana Vol II only (incomplete), Pot Bouille (2 Vols), Germinal (2 Vols) and La Terre (2 Vols). (CAT 22/1057)