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Victor HUGO

Les misérables

A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven & Cie, Bruxelles 1862, 15x21cm, 10 volumes reliés.

Les Misérables

First Belgian edition published simultaneously with the Paris edition.
Bound in half aubergine sheepskin, spine decorated with gilt, marbled boards, discrete restorations mainly on the spine end, colour recovery on all volumes, contemporary binding.
Some light foxing in the margins, a small corner water stain that does not affect the text on the last two books of the fourth volume, another light water stain on the table of the same volume. Small, light water stain on the inner corner of pages 29 to 38 of the sixth volume. On the table of volume eight, some small foxing continues for a few pages, as well as a clear water stain on the upper corner of the very last pages. 
As an ex-libris, a white sheet has been bound to the top of each volume bearing the name of the first owner: Alfred Jeanneret, very beautifully calligraphed in black ink.
The first edition of Les Misérables was legally created by three different publishers, Pagnerre in France, Lacroix in Belgium and Steinacker in Germany, under the aegis of the official publisher A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven & C^ie.
Rare and beautiful copy of the first edition without mention in a contemporary, uniform binding.

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