HUGO Victor

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HUGO Victor
Notre Dame de Paris. Paris, Eugene Renduel, 1836. One volume, in-8, First illustrated edition known as the Keepsake Edition, put on sale on December 5, 1835 as a book of étrennes. It was printed at 2000 copies on laid paper. Bound in full red grief. In the center of the plates, gilt and cold gilt decoration. Smooth spine decorated with romantic irons bearing the title, gilt edges. On the first cover and on the title page, there is the mark of the firm "A. Giroux et Cie" which was one of the most prestigious paper mills in Paris from 1826 to 1848 (7, rue du Coq St Honoré) and which employed the greatest bookbinders of the capital including Thouvenin and Gruel. Alexandre Giroux demanded that the craftsmen did not sign their work. With a frontispiece and 11 off-text plates engraved on steel by E. and W. Finden, Staines, Lacour-Lestudier, Périam, Philibrocon, after Boulanger, Raffet, D. Rouargue, Tony and Alfred Johannot.
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