Victor HUGO. Notre-Dame de Paris. - Lot 45

Victor HUGO. Notre-Dame de Paris. Paris, Perrotin, Garnier frères, 1844. Small in-4, amethyst half-maroquin with corners, 5-ribbed spine richly decorated, gilt edges (Pagnant). Brivois, 196 / Carteret, I, 300 / Vicaire, IV, 260 /// (2f.)- 485-(1f.). The finest illustrated edition of Notre-Dame de Paris, containing 55 hors-texte plates after Beaumont, Boulanger, Daubigny, Johannot, Meissonnier, Steinheil, de Lemud, Rocqueplan and de Rudder, including 21 steel engravings and 34 woodcuts, and numerous woodcut vignettes in the text. A second edition copy, with the bat vignette on the title. A fine copy, despite a marginal restoration at the foot of a plate and a text leaf.