[Victor hugo].
Le Dernier Jour d'un condamné. Paris, Charles Gosselin et Hector Bossange, 1829.
In-12 : long-grained red morocco, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, gilt fillet framing the boards, decorated inner edges, entirely untrimmed, slipcase (Klein).
First edition, published without author's name of Victor Hugo's first manifesto against the death penalty.
The copy is complete with the folded facsimile of the song in slang "found in the papers of the condemned".
A washed copy, preserved at all margins in modern binding. From the library of Jean Inglessi, with bookplate.
Tear without missing at the folded plate.
(Clouzot, p. 144: "Rare. A folded plate, which is often missing."- Carteret, I, p. 399.-
Bertin, Chronologie des livres de Victor Hugo, nº 36.)
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