HUGO (Victor). - Lot 69

HUGO (Victor). Les Misérables. Paris: Pagnerre, 1862. - 10 volumes in-8, 220 x 139: portrait, (2 ff.), II, 355 pp., 4 plates; (2 ff.), 382 pp., 4 plates; (2 ff.), 351 pp., 2 plates; (2 ff.), 318 pp., 2 plates; (2 ff.), 320 pp.., 2 plates; (2 ff.), 297 pp. 3 plates; (2 ff.), 432 pp. 2 plates; (2 ff.), 399 pp. 2 plates; (2 ff.), 400 pp. 3 plates; (2 ff.), 311 pp. 1 plate. Brown half-chagrin, spine ribbed and decorated (period binding). First edition published in France of one of the monuments of nineteenth-century French literature. Published only two days after the Belgian original. An unmarked copy, enriched with a suite comprising a photographic portrait of the author by Edmond Bacot and 25 photographs on albumen paper by Gilmer, pasted on applied China paper, reproducing the first drawings for Les Misérables made by Gustave Brion between 1862 and 1865. Used rubbing to bindings. Some light dampening. One plate disbound in the second and eighth volumes.