HUGO, Victor.

The Novels of Victor Hugo.

London: H.S. Nichols, 1895.

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Finely Illustrated Limited Edition of The Novels of Victor Hugo, One of 100 Sets on Imperial Japan Paper in Twenty-Eight Volumes

The complete and unabridged limited edition of the novels of Victor Hugo, one of only 100 sets printed on Imperial Japan Paper, including his two best-loved masterpieces, Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. Octavo, twenty-eight volumes bound in three quarters crushed levant morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated by Luc-Olivier Merson, Jean-François Raffaëlli, and G. Jeannot, tissue-guarded frontispiece to each volume in two states. One of 100 numbered sets printed on Imperial Japan Paper, this is number 20. The set comprises eight titles in twenty-eight volumes: Hans of Iceland, Bug-Jargal, The Last Day of a Condemned Man and Claude Gueux, Notre-Dame of Paris, Les Misérables, Toilers of the Sea, The Man Who Laughs, and Ninety-Three. In near fine condition. A very nice set.

Victor Hugo (1802-1885) was the towering figure of French Romanticism, a poet, dramatist, and novelist whose works include two of the best-loved novels ever written: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, his 1831 tale of the bell-ringer Quasimodo and the gypsy Esmeralda, and Les Misérables, his vast 1862 epic of justice, poverty, and redemption centered on the fugitive Jean Valjean. A passionate champion of social justice and republican ideals, Hugo spent nearly two decades in political exile during the Second Empire, and at his death was honored with a state funeral and interment in the Panthéon. This finely illustrated set gathers his novels in English translation, with illustrations by Luc-Olivier Merson and Jean-François Raffaëlli.