Victor HUGO, Tony JOHANNOT
Le roi s'amuse
Eugène Renduel|Paris 1832|14.50 x 23.50 cm|relié
First edition illustrated with a frontispiece by Tony Johannot engraved by Andrew, Leloir and Best and mounted on China paper.
Full dark blue Russian morocco binding, spine with four raised bands set with gilt garlands, spine also decorated with triple gilt compartments and ornamented with gilt typographical motifs, gilt friezes at head and foot, gilt date at foot, gilt roulettes on headcaps, triple gilt fillet frame on covers enhanced at corners with gilt typographical motifs, raspberry watered silk endpapers and pastedowns, seven-fold gilt fillet frame on pastedowns, following endpapers of pebbled paper, bookplate pasted on an endpaper, gilt fillets on leading edges, superb romantic p
Full dark blue Russian morocco binding, spine with four raised bands set with gilt garlands, spine also decorated with triple gilt compartments and ornamented with gilt typographical motifs, gilt friezes at head and foot, gilt date at foot, gilt roulettes on headcaps, triple gilt fillet frame on covers enhanced at corners with gilt typographical motifs, raspberry watered silk endpapers and pastedowns, seven-fold gilt fillet frame on pastedowns, following endpapers of pebbled paper, bookplate pasted on an endpaper, gilt fillets on leading edges, superb romantic p
€1,200