Victor Hugo - Les Misérables - Édition originale parisienne - Complet en 10 volumes - 1862

Victor Hugo. Les Misérables.

At Pagnerre, Paris (and A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven et Cie, Brussels), 1862, 10 volumes in-8 (15.1 x 23.1 cm), complete.

Contemporary bindings in brown half calf, smooth spines adorned with gold fillets, black title and volume labels, marbled paper boards.

Parisian original edition of Victor Hugo's masterpiece, printed by J. Claye and published only a few days after the Brussels edition. Volumes VII to X with no edition statement; fictitious mentions of a fifth edition on volumes I and II and of a third edition on volumes III to VI, titles in red and black. A well-complete series of the five parts: Fantine, Cosette, Marius, The Idyll Rue Plumet and the Epic Rue Saint-Denis, Jean Valjean.

Manuscript ex-libris in pencil on a few half-titles: Félix Fraissinet

- Condition: Good copy in uniform period binding, interior fresh with occasional scattered foxing. Spine slightly rubbed. See photos for details.
- Page counts: Volume I: 355 pages; Volume II: 382 pages; Volume III: 358 pages; Volume IV: 318 pages; Volume V: 320 pages; Volume VI: 297 pages; Volume VII: 432 pages; Volume VIII: 399 pages; Volume IX: 400 pages; Volume X: 311 pages

- Victor Hugo, born 7 ventôse an X in Besançon and died 22 May 1885 in Paris, is a French poet, playwright, novelist and draughtsman associated with Romanticism. He is regarded as one of the most important writers in the French language and world literature. Wikipedia

Carefully shipped in a rigid and watertight carton.