HUGO Les Misérables Paris, Pagnerre, 1862. 10 volumes in 10 volumes in-8°: (4ff), 355 pages ; (2ff), 382 pages ; (2ff), 358 pages ; (2ff), 318 pages (1f blank) ; (2ff), 320 pages ; (2ff), 297 pages (1f blank) ; (2ff), 432 pages ; (2ff), 399 pages ; (2ff), 400 pages ; (2ff), 311 pages. (Some foxing). Bound in burgundy half-chagrin, spine decorated with gilt faux nerfs and cold-stamped fillets, boards in green papier grenu (contemporary binding with some flaws). Edition with the date of the original (French), and strictly conforming to it, with mention of the fifth edition on the first three volumes and the third on the following seven.

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