HUGO (Victor). Le Roi s'amuse, drama. Paris : Librairie d'Eugène Renduel, 1832. - In-8, 231 x 141: frontispiece, (3 ff.), XXIII, 183 pp. printed cover. Green half-maroquin with corners, gilt fillets, smooth spine decorated, untrimmed, cover preserved, case (Canape). First edition of this famous drama by Victor Hugo, first performed on November 12, 1832 at the Théâtre-Français. This play had a particular and eventful destiny. It was effectively suspended the day after the first performance by ministerial letter. The author was reproached for his political charge against the monarchy. Hugo then sued the Théâtre-Français to protest against the banning of his play and echoed his fight in the preface that opens this edition. The edition is illustrated on the frontispiece with a beautiful woodcut vignette on chine glued from a composition by Tony Johannot. Beautiful copy bound in booklet, enriched with a copper-engraved plate on chine pastedown, after a drawing by Camille Rogier, from the Renduel edition of 1837 . Some foxing. Provenance: ex-libris JLR and LLR.