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Victor HUGO

Les misérables

Pagnerre, Paris 1862, 10 tomes en 10 Vol. in-8 (14,5x23,5cm), reliés.

Parisian first edition published three days after that of Brussels. False mention of eighth edition for the first 6 volumes, the last 4, ie volumes 7 to 10 without any mention.
Binding semi morbid red morocco contemporary. Back with nerves adorned with fat and lean, golden and cold fillets. Together fresh, freckles. Nice series pleasantly connected.
In order to make a point on the various judgments of the bibliographers: While Vicaire indicates that the French edition is the true original, Clouzot affirming that the two are original, it must be specified that the Belgian edition was published three days before (the 31 March for Brussels and April 3 for Paris), but the truth is not a story of date. Lacroix is ​​the publisher of Hugo, Pagnerre is only the depository in Paris, which explains the presence of the name of Lacroix behind the false title, together with that of Lacroix. It is also known that the work was to appear in all major capitals at the same time, which happened in a few days. For the question of the mentions, this is probably quite simple: for commercial reasons of cost we proceeded to a single draw, some with mentions, others not, in order to distribute them during the year as if each time it was new editions. We understand Clouzot saying that an edition without mention is more desirable, because it seems to have been earlier, but in fact, and to sell, when the title pages without mention have been exhausted we sold in the disorder these pages of titles with mention or not, and very often copies were made bearing various mentions (the composition of our copy shows it well, without mention and eighth for the first 6), it is however true that the copies without mention were the first put in sale, and that editions with mention have title pages in red and black, to make them appear as new editions.

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