HUGO (Victor). Ruy Blas, drama in five acts. Paris : Librairie Conquet, 1889. - Large in-8, 270 x 182 : portrait, (2 ff.), xi, 211 pp., (2 ff.), printed cover. Dark brown morocco, framed with four thin fillets and one thick fillet on the boards, spine decorated with the same frames, five gilt fillets inside, gilt edges on witnesses, cover preserved, case (Canape). Very beautiful edition illustrated with a portrait of the author after a drawing by Marie-Alexandre ALOPHE (1812-1883) and fifteen compositions after Adrien MOREAU (1843-1906), including five hors texte, all engraved with etching by Eugène-André Champollion (1848-1901). Limited edition of 500 copies, this one on vélin du Marais being one of the thirty first copies with the illustrations in three states (pure etching, before the letter and final state), justified in pen and initialled by the publisher. A very nice copy in a perfect binding by Canape. Provenance: André Sciama, also known under the pseudonym Albert Semiane, with bookplate. - Robert Beauvillain, with bookplate engraved by Charles Jouas.