Notre-Dame de Paris

First illustrated edition, in the very first issue and complete in a single volume; a three-volume issue, more common and published later in the course of 1836, was subsequently produced. With a frontispiece title and 11 steel-engraved plates hors-texte on heavy wove paper, after Johannot, Boulanger, Raffet, Rogier & Rouargue, engraved by Finden, Staines… The work is attractively printed in an airy type with generous margins, closely following the original edition published in 1831. The plate entitled "De l'utilité des fenêtres" is present; according to Clouzot it is most often lacking, as it was printed later than the initial release of the work.
Contemporary full wine-coloured morocco binding, signed at the foot of the spine Ulmann-Herzog. Smooth spine decorated with two mirrored rocaille panels linked by fillets. Boards stamped in gilt with a large urn surrounded by flowers, birds and cherubs. Spine sunned, now uniformly light brown. Some rubbing. Tissue guards present. Scattered browning. Gilt edges. A few leaves slightly sprung. A good copy.
Like most major novels of the period, very rare in a full signed binding.