Victor Hugo - Œuvres Complètes Illustrées [ca. 1880] - 1880

Victor Hugo – Complete Illustrated Works [ca. 1880]– 1880

Illustrated edition with wood engravings in and out of text.

Publishers’ quarter red levant bindings, spine with four gilt cords ornamented by double gold frames with decorative gold motifs, the publisher’s gold name on the spine tails, bindings from the period.

Volume I – Notre-Dame de Paris – +/-650 pages
Volume II – Les Misérables: I. Fantine, II. Cosette – +/-800 pages
Volume III – Les Misérables: III. Marius, IV. The Idyll of Rue Plumet and the Epic of Rue Saint-Denis – +/-700 pages
Volume IV – Les Misérables: V. Jean Valjean, The Last Day of a Condemned Man, Claude Gueux – +/-450 pages
Volume V – Twenty-Three-Quatre-vingt (Quatre-Vingt Treize) – +/-450 pages
Volume VI – L’Archipel de la Manche, The Sea Workers – +/- 500 pages
Volume VII – The Man Who Laughs – +/-670 pages
Volume VIII – Bug-Jargal, Han d’Islande – +/- 400 pages
Volume IX – Histoire d’un Crime – +/- 470 pages
Volume X – Napoléon-Le-Petit, Choses Vues – +/- 700 pages
Volume XI – Literature and Philosophy, William Shakespeare, Paris, Victor Hugo Raconte – +/-450 pages
Volume XII – Before Exile, During Exile, Since Exile – +/- 700 pages
Volume XIII – The Rhine, Alps and Pyrenees, France and Belgium – +/- 400 pages
Volume XIV – Hernani, Marion Delorme, Le Roi S’Amuse, Lucrèce Borgia, Marie Dudor, Angelo, La Esmeralda, Ruy-Blas, Les Brugraves – +/- 350 pages
Volume XV – Cromwell, Porquemada, Théâtre en Liberté, Amy Robsart, The Twins – +/- 350 pages
Volume XVI – The Rays and the Shadows, The Contemplations, The Songs of the Streets and the Woods – +/- 500 pages
Volume XVII – La Légende des Siècles, The Art of Being Grandfather, The Pope, The Supreme Mercy, Religions and Religion, The Donkey, The Four Winds of the Spirit – +/- 350 pages
Volume XVIII – The Terrible Year, The Liberation of the Territory, The Last Sheaf – +/- 700 pages
Volume XIX – Letters to the Fiancée, Correspondence 1815-1882, Post-Scriptum of My Life – +/- 300 pages

The set totals +/- 10,000 pages

Editions J. Girard et Cie. Paris

Good overall condition, scattered wear marks, covers show rubbing marks in places, small nicks, minor tears, stains, some more pronounced on the front and back boards, particularly in certain volumes (I, II, IV and XIV), small leather cracks at the tail of Volume XVI, and the headcaps of Volumes IX and XVIII; pages are foxed, some light tears scattered, the first few pages of Volume II show nicks, Volume II also has a slight tear at the inner hinge near the first few pages, otherwise the pages are in good condition for the rest of the set. It is possible, given the number of volumes, that we have not identified some defects, and they may therefore not be listed despite our inspection. A fine set, complete (See photos).

28×19.5 cm. +/- 30 kg (books only).

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