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Lot 141

HUGO (VICTOR)
Notre-Dame de Paris, Paris, Perrotin, 1844

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£5,000 - £7,000

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HUGO (VICTOR)

Notre-Dame de Paris, half-title, engraved frontispiece repeated on 2 paper stocks, 54 engraved plates (9 of which in 2 states, including plate 21 with the error "Audiance" and in corrected state, and 2 in 3 states, including "Paris à vol d'oiseau") after Beaumont, Boulanger, Daubigny, Tony Johannot, Lemud, Steinheil, etc., myriad illustrations and decorations in text, straight-grained dark blue morocco by G. Mercier dated 1921, covers with multiple gilt rules, inlaid red and green trefoils and quatrefoils at corners, spine gilt in six compartments with inlays, publisher's yellow general wrappers and elaborately gilt cloth covers bound in, t.e.g., slipcase, large 8vo, Paris, Perrotin, 1844

Footnotes

First printing of this edition, which inspired the gargoyles in Viollet-le-Duc's restoration of Notre Dame: "As he drew, he thought of satirical cartoons and the 1844 illustrated edition of Notre-Dame de Paris...; he imagined gryphons, unicorns and vampires, and pondered the strangeness of elephants, pelicans, cats and goats" (Graham Robb, 'Hugolian Gothic', London Review of Books, vol. 32, no. 4, 25 February 2010).

Provenance: F. van Antwerpen, bookplate.

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