Michel Lévy frères • Jules Hetzel & Cie|Paris 1859-1877-1883|15 x 24 cm|5 volumes reliés
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Complete Edition. Binders half red shagreen with corners, back with five nerves set with gold threads adorned with triple gilded boxes decorated in angles of black romantic arabesques, dates and golden friezes tails, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, three blankets and spine preserved (four courses with small marginal gaps), an upper corner of the third volume blunt, golden head. Our copy is enriched with an autograph note signed by Victor Hugo Mery, brother of novelist Joseph Mery: "Dear Mery, thank your brother I will write it after reading it, but before I speak to the minister as I tell you.. Luther to Melanchthon: frater tuus frater meus, you Victor Hugo Friday 29. ".. The autograph ticket is mounted on tab and placed at the head of the third volume and accompanied by a bookseller description tag mounted on the ticket foot tab. Pleasant copy established in uniform binding.