HUGO (Victor). [Œuvres]. Paris, 1840-1869. - 25 volumes in-8, 223 x 144. Red half-chagrin, ornate ribbed spine, speckled edges (binding circa 1870). A composite copy of Victor Hugo's works, in uniform binding, including the ORIGINAL FRENCH EDITION OF LES MISÉRABLES. The set consists of the following titles and editions: - Odes et ballades. - Odes et ballades. Les Orientales. - Les Feuilles d'automne. Les Chants du crépuscule. - Inner voices. Les Rayons et les ombres. Paris: Furne et Cie, 1840. - 4 volumes in-8, portrait, (2 ff.), 387 pp. 1 plate; (2 ff.), 446 pp. 1 plate; (2 ff.), 423 pp. 2 plates; (2 ff.), 434 pp. 1 blank. Set of the first 6 volumes of the collective edition issued by Furne, illustrated with a portrait of the author engraved by Hopwood, 2 steel-engraved plates after drawings by Bayalos, 2 plates after Steinhell, and an engraved vignette on each title. Missing the hors-texte entitled Sous la baigneuse engraved after A. Colin in the second volume and the two plates (Albert Dürer and Rencontre) in the fourth. Scattered brown spots. - Les Contemplations I. Autrefois 1830-1843. - Les Contemplations II. Aujourd'hui 1845-1856. Paris: Michel Lévy frères, J. Hetzel, Pagnerre, 1856. - 2 volumes in-8, (2 ff.), 359 pp. ; (2 ff.), 408 pp. New edition, published the same year as the original, with two woodcut vignettes on the titles. Some foxing. - Han of Iceland. - Bug-Jargal. Le Dernier jour d'un condamné. - Notre-Dame de Paris. Paris: Furne et Cie, 1841. - 4 volumes in-8, (2 ff.), 583 pp. (Han d'Islande); (2 ff.), 443 pp., (2 ff.), 1 facsimile (Bug-Jargal. Le Dernier jour d'un condamné); frontispiece, 372 pp. 3 plates; frontispiece, (2 ff.), 426 pp. 6 plates. Together volumes 5, 6, 10 and 11 of the collective edition published by Furne. Each title features a woodcut vignette, and Notre-Dame de Paris is adorned with 14 steel-engraved plates after Tony and Alfred Johannot, Raffet, Camille Rogier and Louis Boulanger. Scattered foxing. The plate "Utilité des fenêtres qui donnent sur la rivière" (Utility of windows overlooking the river) is unbound and shows two fold marks that do not affect the figure. - Cromwell, drama in five acts. - Hernani. Marion Delorme. Le Roi s'amuse. - Lucrèce Borgia. Marie Tudor. Angelo. Ruy Blas. Paris: Furne et Cie, 1840. -3 volumes in-8, frontispiece, (2 ff.), 500 pp, 3 plates (Cromwell, drama in five acts); frontispiece, (2 ff.), 513 pp, (1 f.), 4 plates (Hernani. Marion Delorme. Le Roi s'amuse); frontispiece, (2 ff.), 567 pp, 4 plates (Lucrèce Borgia. Marie Tudor. Angelo. Ruy Blas). Together volumes 7, 8 and 9 of the collective edition published by Furne. Each title features a woodcut vignette, and the three volumes include a total of 14 hors texte steel engravings. One plate is missing from the Cromwell volume. Scattered foxing. One plate and two loose leaves in the Hernani volume, stained last leaves in the same volume, and 2 loose leaves in the Lucrèce Borgia volume. - Ruy Blas. Les Burgraves. La Esmeralda. Paris: Alexandre Houssiaux, 1860. - 1 volume in-8, (2 ff.), 390 pp, (7 ff.), 4 plates. New edition of volume 4 of the Drames in Houssiaux's collective edition. The latter had first published it in 1856. The edition is illustrated with 4 out-of-text woodcut figures. Some foxing. - Littérature et philosophie mêlées. Paris: Furne et Cie, 1841. - 1 volume in-8, (2 ff.), 406 pp., (1 f.). Volume XII of the Furne edition. - The Rhine. Letters to a friend. Paris: Alexandre Houssiaux, 1860. - 3 volumes in-8, (2 ff.), 382 pp. (1 blank f.), 8 plates; (2 ff.), 447 pp. 11 plates; (2 ff.), 352 pp. 5 plates. Reprint of the 1857 Houssiaux edition, illustrated here with 24 of the 30 plates required. Scattered foxing. - La Légende des siècles. Paris: Michel Lévy frères, Hetzel et Cie, 1859. - 2 volumes in-8, XVII, 272 pp; (2 ff.), 270 pp, (1 f. blank). FIRST FRENCH EDITION, offered for sale before the Brussels edition but printed after it. Second edition copy, with the typographical error corrected in Volume I page XVI (the word "mais" line 22 correctly printed). Scattered brown spots. - Les Misérables. Paris: Pagnerre, 1862. - 10 volumes in 5 in-8, (2 ff.), II pp, (1 f.), 351 pp, (1 f.), pp. (353)-355; (2 ff.), 382 pp; (2 ff.), 358 pp; (2 ff.), 318 pp (1 bl. f.); (2 ff.), 320 pp; (2 ff.), 297 pp, (1 f. bl.); (2 ff.), 432 pp.; (2 ff.), 399 pp.; (2 ff.), 400 pp.; (2 ff.), 311 pp. ORIGINAL FRENCH EDITION OF ONE OF THE MONUMENTS OF 19th CENTURY LITERATURE. This edition appeared only two days after the Belgian original. Copy with no mention of edition on titles. Shoulders browned.