HUGO (Victor).

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HUGO (Victor).
Notre-Dame de Paris. Paris, Eugène Renduel, 1836. Three volumes in-8, bound in contemporary red half-maroquin with long grain and corners, spines without nerves adorned with a gilt decoration of the cathedral with slight enhancement containing title and tomaison in gilt letters, marbled edges (Simier, R. du Roi). Title-frontispiece and eleven steel engravings after Louis Boulanger, Alfred and Tony Johannot, Raffet, Rogier and Rouargue. The publisher Eugène Renduel issued a one-volume in-8 edition with the same figures of this so-called keepsake edition, considered a model of its kind. Brivois indicates on this subject: "We do not know if there is reason to look for precedence between these two editions to determine in which one the first edition of the engravings is found; the copies that we compared seemed to us to be of the same print run". The figures bear Renduel's address, except for the three in volume I A precious copy of Charles Asselineau, exquisitely bound in the A la cathédrale period by Simier, with on the first counter-piece of each volume his beautiful bookplate engraved by Braquemond, a particularly remarkable provenance for this romantic work par excellence. Writer and art critic, friend of Baudelaire, Asselineau (1820 - 1874) was the author in 1866 of the first attempt at a romantic bibliography (Mélanges tirés d'une petite bibliothèque romantique), an essay based on his own collection, which was also the first of its kind. A few spots of brown spots, as usual for this edition.
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