Oeuvres Complètes de Victor Hugo: Poésie

Paris: Eugène Renduel, 1838. Red Calf Spine/Marbled Boards. Very Good. 2 volumes. Marbled covers match pastedowns and endpapers. Darkened spines with gilt titles and decorations. Volume 1 with slight rubbing to spine edges and cover corners, darkened patches at pastedowns and endpapers, mild foxing through text that does not hinder readability. Volume 2 with slight rubbing to spine ends and cover corners, small creased dent top edge front cover, darkened patches at pastedowns and endpapers, mild foxing throughout text that doesn't detract from readability. Bindings tight and firm, no previous owner signatures or inscriptions. Hugo was one of the most important facets of the French Romantic movement, and some consider him to be the greatest French poet in history. He is most famous his concern with social injustice, as exemplified in his novels Les Misérables and the Hunchback of Notre Dame. Hugo declared himself a traitor when Napoleon III took power with an anti-parliamentarian stance, and lived in exile until the Third Republic was established in 1870. He was in Paris during the Prussian siege of that city in the same year, and survived by eating zoo animals. He died at age 83 and was buried in the Panthéon.