The Rhine : in two volumes … / by Victor Hugo.
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Category
Books
Date
1902
Materials
Place of origin
Boston
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3260337
Summary
Bibliographic description
Centenary edition. 2 v., plates : ill. ; 8vo. Uniformly bound and shelved with other works by Victor Hugo in the centenary edition published by Estes. Copy no. 731. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Early twentieth-century half red morocco, marbled paper over boards; recessed cords; five false bands; spines lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Victor Hugo' and 'The Rhine / I[-II]'; gilt top edges; marbled endpapers. Some uncut leaves in both vols.
Makers and roles
Victor Hugo (1802-1885), author