[HUGO (Victor)]. Notre-Dame de Paris. Paris, Charles Gosseli - Lot 211

[HUGO (Victor)]. Notre-Dame de Paris. Paris, Charles Gosselin (imprimerie de Cosson), 1831. 2 volumes in-8, [4] f., 404 p. + [2] f., 536 p., blond half-calf with corners, smooth spine adorned with gilt fillets and fleurons, red and black title and appendix, cold roulette on covers, marbled edges, expertly restored; recent half-maroquin polished in havana, spine ribbed, author, title and appendix gilt (one corner rubbed t.1; snags and soiling in margins t.2 p. 7-10, rubbing in margin t.2 p. Original edition, a rare first-issue copy. It is printed on fine laid paper, with wide margins (h = 201 mm.). "This first edition, in fine condition, is the rarest of all the author's works; it has had a worldwide impact, and is one of the most difficult to obtain of the Romantic period" (Carteret). "Copies of the first edition, without mention of the edition and without the author's name, are extremely rare" (Clouzot). Each title page is illustrated with a different woodcut vignette after Tony Johannot. A very fine copy in an attractive English binding of the period, bearing the binder's label "Enoch Jones, binder and printer, Beaumaris". Provenance: William Lewis Hughes, 1st Baron Dinorben (1767 - 1852), British politician, landowner and miner in Wales (Carteret I, 400).