HUGO (Victor). Châtiments. [On the title:] Genève et New York, 1853. [Verso du faux-titre:]. In-32, (4 of which the last blank)-III-(1 blank)-392 pp, red morocco, double gilt fillet framing the boards and entrenerfs and decorating the edges, gilt lace inner frame, gilt edges, covers and spine (tarnished and restored) preserved (P.L.MARTIN). UNEXPURGATED FIRST EDITION. Châtiments was published in November 1853 in two different editions, both paid for by the publisher Jules Hetzel, then in exile in Brussels, and both printed in that city by the same typesetter Henri Samuel. The first, avowedly published, presents a redacted version of a large part of the poems and all the names of the people attacked by Hugo; the other, clandestine and offering the full text, as here, bears the fictitious address of Geneva and New York with mention of the Imprimerie universelle in Jersey, and went through several printings.