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HUGO (Victor). Les Orientales. Paris, Gosselin, Bossange, 1829. In-8, (4 of which last blank)-xi-[one blank]-424 pp., publisher's prospectus (16 pp.), midnight-blue morocco, spine ribbed, partitioned and decorated, multiple gilt fillets with corner fleurons framing the boards, gilt wavy fillet on the edges, interior framing in the same leather decorated with a gilt frieze, linings and endpapers in blue-gray moire, gilt edges, covers and spine preserved; edges and corners a little rubbed (Canape.R.D. - 1923). FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 300 COPIES WITH NO PRINTING DATE, AND ONE OF THE FEW TO HAVE THE FAMOUS PROSPECTUS BY SAINTE-BEUVE. It includes Victor Hugo's important preface, dated January 1829: "this preface can be considered both as a Romantic manifesto of capital importance and as a first step towards the doctrine of Art pour l'Art, which will lead to Parnassian poetry" (Élisabeth Barineau). Illustrated with drawings by painter Louis-Candide Boulanger, a close friend of Victor Hugo and a familiar figure in Romantic circles: copper-engraved frontispiece by Charles Cousin printed on Chine appliqué entitled "Clair de lune", wood-engraved vignette to the title entitled "Les Djinns". BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE, ENRICHED with 2 pieces: - Another proof of the frontispiece, this one on chine azuré appliqué. - HEREDIA (José-Maria de). Autograph letter signed [to Victor Hugo]. Paris, January 23, 1877. "Monsieur and revered master, my poor dear mother died suddenly yesterday. She passed away in my arms as gently as she had lived. You had been her first and deepest admiration, when she lived in the woods of the island of Cuba. The day before she died, at the age of seventy, she was enthusiastically rereading Les Orientales for us. She was as intelligent as she was kind. She leaves an indelible mark on all those who knew her. I didn't want to send you, illustrious and revered master, a banal letter of invitation. The funeral will take place tomorrow, Wednesday, at 10 3/4 a.m. in the church of Saint-François-Xavier, boulevard des Invalides...". Provenance: Dr. Lucien-Graux (leather bookplate) then Charles Hayoit (leather bookplate).
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HUGO (Victor). Les Orientales. Paris, Gosselin, Bossange, 1829. In-8, (4 of which last blank)-xi-[one blank]-424 pp., publisher's prospectus (16 pp.), midnight-blue morocco, spine ribbed, partitioned and decorated, multiple gilt fillets with corner fleurons framing the boards, gilt wavy fillet on the edges, interior framing in the same leather decorated with a gilt frieze, linings and endpapers in blue-gray moire, gilt edges, covers and spine preserved; edges and corners a little rubbed (Canape.R.D. - 1923). FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 300 COPIES WITH NO PRINTING DATE, AND ONE OF THE FEW TO HAVE THE FAMOUS PROSPECTUS BY SAINTE-BEUVE. It includes Victor Hugo's important preface, dated January 1829: "this preface can be considered both as a Romantic manifesto of capital importance and as a first step towards the doctrine of Art pour l'Art, which will lead to Parnassian poetry" (Élisabeth Barineau). Illustrated with drawings by painter Louis-Candide Boulanger, a close friend of Victor Hugo and a familiar figure in Romantic circles: copper-engraved frontispiece by Charles Cousin printed on Chine appliqué entitled "Clair de lune", wood-engraved vignette to the title entitled "Les Djinns". BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE, ENRICHED with 2 pieces: - Another proof of the frontispiece, this one on chine azuré appliqué. - HEREDIA (José-Maria de). Autograph letter signed [to Victor Hugo]. Paris, January 23, 1877. "Monsieur and revered master, my poor dear mother died suddenly yesterday. She passed away in my arms as gently as she had lived. You had been her first and deepest admiration, when she lived in the woods of the island of Cuba. The day before she died, at the age of seventy, she was enthusiastically rereading Les Orientales for us. She was as intelligent as she was kind. She leaves an indelible mark on all those who knew her. I didn't want to send you, illustrious and revered master, a banal letter of invitation. The funeral will take place tomorrow, Wednesday, at 10 3/4 a.m. in the church of Saint-François-Xavier, boulevard des Invalides...". Provenance: Dr. Lucien-Graux (leather bookplate) then Charles Hayoit (leather bookplate).
