HUGO (Victor). Hernani drama in five acts, in verse. New edition. Paris : Calmann Lévy, à la librairie nouvelle, 1878. - In-8, 257 x 162 : frontispiece, (4 ff.), VIII, 160 pp. printed cover. Half red morocco with corners, gilt fillets, smooth spine decorated, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (contemporary binding). A rare new edition of only 100 copies, published on the occasion of the revival of the play at the Comédie-Française in 1877. It is illustrated with a beautiful etched frontispiece after a composition by François Nicolas Chifflart (1825-1901), representing Sarah Bernhardt, Mounet-Sully and Maubant in the last scene of the play. ONE OF 20 COPIES ON CHINE, including 3 prints of the frontispiece, on chine, on japon and on whatmann. Copy enriched with a portrait of Victor Hugo after Devéria on japon before the letter, with the suite of 15 figures engraved by Boisson after Michelena (5 chapter headings, 5 culs-de-lampe and 5 hors-texts), printed on japon, for the Conquet edition of 1890, a portrait of Sarah Bernhardt as Doña Sol engraved by Jules-Armand Hanriot after a photograph by Nadar, a portrait of Maubant as Don Ruy Gomez de Silva, engraved by Gaucherel, and a portrait of Worms as Don Carlos after a drawing by Albert Maignan A very nice copy bound in the late 19th or early 20th century. Lined cover.