HUGO (Victor). Notre-Dame de Paris. Second edition. Paris : Charles Gosselin, 1831. - 2 volumes in-8, 206 x 127 : (4 ff.), 404 pp. ; (2 ff.), 536 pp. Half red long-grained morocco with corners, spine ribbed and decorated, gilt head, untrimmed (Huser). Very rare second edition. The publisher Gosselin published the work on March 16, 1831 at 1100 copies. This first printing was divided into four editions of 275 copies each, the first of which bears no mention of the edition, the others bearing respectively on the titles the fictitious mentions of "second", "third" and "fourth edition". Each title is illustrated with a beautiful woodcut vignette after Tony Johannot, the first one depicting Quasimodo in the pillory, receiving a drink from Esmeralda, the second one depicting the latter on her knees with her hands tied behind her back, on the forecourt of Notre-Dame. A very nice copy bound by Huser. Spine very slightly faded. Brown stains in the margins of pages 257 to 261 of the first volume. Provenance: Ex-libris CB, drawn by Henry-André and dated 1905.
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HUGO (Victor).
Notre-Dame de Paris. Second edition.
Paris : Charles Gosselin, 1831. - 2 volumes in-8, 206 x 127 : (4 ff.), 404 pp. ; (2 ff.), 536 pp. Half red long-grained morocco with corners, spine ribbed and decorated, gilt head, untrimmed (Huser).
Very rare second edition.
The publisher Gosselin published the work on March 16, 1831 at 1100 copies. This first printing was divided into four editions of 275 copies each, the first of which bears no mention of the edition, the others bearing respectively on the titles the fictitious mentions of "second", "third" and "fourth edition".
Each title is illustrated with a beautiful woodcut vignette after Tony Johannot, the first one depicting Quasimodo in the pillory, receiving a drink from Esmeralda, the second one depicting the latter on her knees with her hands tied behind her back, on the forecourt of Notre-Dame.
A very nice copy bound by Huser.
Spine very slightly faded. Brown stains in the margins of pages 257 to 261 of the first volume.
Provenance: Ex-libris CB, drawn by Henry-André and dated 1905.
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