Illustrated edition of a French classic

Description

Victor Hugo's Les misérables. No title pages, undated, no publisher name, the book was bound after its release in deliveries published between 1879 and 1882 (complete), 5 volumes, octavo, 28 x 20 cm, half-leather binding, damaged caps, worn corners, rubbed edges, page 359-360 leaf (torn and frayed), 2 cracked joints, some foxing. Wonderfully illustrated with hundreds of wood engravings including frontispieces, illustrated by Emile Bayard, Alphonse de Neuville, Gustave Brion, Jean-Paul Laurens, Edgar Morin, Daniel Vierge, Adrien Marie, Eugène Delacroix, Y. Perrichon, Edouard François Zier, Henri Vogel, Léon Benett, Victor Hugo, Fortuné Méaulle, Martin Lanseval, H. Scott, Des Brosses, Valnay, Lix... One of the masterpieces of one of the greatest French writers.