Victor Hugo, Bug-Jargal, and Others [1866]

Language: French (original text)

Size: 29 cm

Contents: 18 independent literary, poetic, and dramatic works in a single volume, each with its own graphic design.

Binding: period half-leather, with visible wear.

A 4°-format volume containing 18 works by Victor Hugo—novels, plays, and poetry—in the Paris edition by Pierre-Jules Hetzel, known, among other things, for his editions of Jules Verne. Each work features full-page plates and vignettes in vertical woodcut based on drawings by, among others, Édouard Riou, Célestin Nanteuil, Gérard Séguin, Jean-Adolphe Beaucé, Eustache Lorsay, and Foulquier, engraved by Stéphane Pannemaker. The collection includes works from various periods, ranging from early novels (“Bug-Jargal,” “Han of Iceland”) to Romantic plays. In 1866, Hugo was living in exile on Guernsey. Text in French.

Number on the title page; slight soiling. Period half-leather binding with scuff marks.

An item from the 18th Polish Antiquarian Book Auction.