Notre-Dame de Paris

Illustrated edition and first issue of the 55 plates printed on heavy paper, including 21 steel engravings and 34 wood-engraved plates, after designs by E. de Beaumont, L. Boulanger, Daubigny, T. Johannot, de Lemud, Meissonnier, and others.

This edition is further enriched with numerous wood engravings in the text and medieval-inspired decorative ornaments.<

Contemporary half burgundy shagreen, spine lightly faded and divided by four raised bands ruled in gilt, compartments richly tooled in gilt with typographic ornaments, gilt initials and decorative tailpiece at foot, one joint skilfully restored at the foot, a few rubs to the spine, burgundy embossed paper boards framed with gilt fillets, orange endpapers and pastedowns decorated with blind-stamped floral motifs, all edges gilt, an attractive Romantic-period binding.

Occasional foxing, as usual, internal hinges split.

"A remarkable publication, scarce in fine condition, and rightly sought after as the prototype of the great illustrated text interpreted by the artists of its own time." (Carteret).