New illustrated edition, one of 35 copies printed on chamois vellum, deluxe issue following 25 copies on China paper.
Contemporary Bradel bindings in half Bordeaux morocco with marbled paper boards, smooth spines, corners in morocco, comb-marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers bound in. Binding signed by Carayon.
This 1882 edition is a reissue of the 1844 edition illustrated by Charles François Daubigny, Valentin Foulquier, Thoedor Josef Hoffbauer, Victor Hugo, Tony Johannot, Aimé de Lemud, Ernest Meissonier, Célestin Nanteuil, Camille Roqueplan, Louis Henri de Rudder and Louis Steinheil...
Complete with the double-page map of Paris inserted between pages 178 and 179 of the first volume.
A very handsome copy of Victor Hugo’s masterpiece, attractively bound by Carayon.