Lot 08240

VICTOR HUGO – 9 Volumes Nouvelle Edition Illustrée, Paris : Euge Hugues éditeur, no dates [c.1890].

Les Miserables, 3 Vols (Tome I: I-II, Tome II: III-IV, Tome III: IV-V),Notre-Dame de Paris – Vol. IV: p. [4],303 + iv,352, illustrated with a frontispiece, the illustrated title, headbands, initials, cul-de-lamps as well as numerous woodcuts in and out of text. This is a reissue of the one first published in 1844, illustrated by E. de Beaumont, L. Boulanger, Daubigny, Foulquier, Hoffbauer, V. Hugo, T. Johannot, de Lemud, Meissonier, C. Nanteuil, C. Roqueplan, de Rudder and Steinheil, Thérond, D. Vierge. Complete with the fold-out map of Paris placed between pages 178 and 179.Quatre-Vingt-Treize – Vol. VLes Travailleurs de la Mer – Vol. VI: p. 520, with numerous wood engravings out of text after drawings by Victor Hugo, Daniel Vierge and ChliffartL’Homme Qui Rit – Vol. VII : p. 671, with numerous black and white drawings in and out of text – mottled back covers – author, title, fleurons and gilt fillets on the spine – stained, damaged covers – rubbed corners – yellowed paper and some traces of wetting inside the work without consequences on the readingHan d’Islande Bug-Jargal – Vol. VIII: p. [6],168,[1]. Designs by Rochegrosse, with numerous b/w illustrations in-text.Choses Vues le Dernier Jour d’un Condamne Claude Gueux – Vol. IX

In small 4to tomes, in half red leather binding and marbled carton boards; spines with 5 nerves decorated with golden fleurons and title in gilt. Some age wear is visible, bumped and chipped along edges, some cracked joints, slight rubbed covers. Marbled endpapers, ex libris label. Browned pages, some foxing inside, rather tight (a few first pages are loos), but clean throughout. Nice collection on V. Hugo’s works.