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Paris: Eugéne Renduel, 1836. Half Leather. Good. Oeuvres Complètes du Victor Hugo. Drame III. 8vo. pp. 196. Green morocco backstrip with gilt titles and elaborate gilt embellishments. Blue marbled boards, marbled endpapers, marbled page edges. Loss of backstrip to hd of spine, joints worn, boards rubbed to edges, occasional spotting and offsetting to pages, but binding remains firm, still a clean, sound copy.
Synopsis
L'auteur de ce drame ecrivait il y a peu de semaines a propos d'un poete mort avant l'age: «...Dans ce moment de melee et de tourmente litteraire, qui faut-il plaindre, ceux qui meurent ou ceux qui combattent? Sans doute, il est triste de voir un poete de vingt ans qui s'en va, une lyre qui se brise, un avenir qui s'evanouit; mais n'est-ce pas quelque chose aussi que le repos? N'est-il pas permis a ceux autour desquels s'amassent incessamment calomnies, injures, haines, jalousies, sourdes menees, basses trahisons; hommes loyaux auxquels on fait une guerre deloyale; hommes devoues qui ne voudraient enfin que doter le pays d'une liberte de plus, celle de l'art, celle de l'intelligence; hommes laborieux qui poursuivent paisiblement leur oeuvre de conscience, en proie d'un cote a de viles machinations de censure et de police, en butte de l'autre, trop souvent, a l'ingratitude des esprits memes pour lesquels ils travaillent; ne leur est-il pas permis de retourner quelquefois la tete avec envie vers ceux qui sont tombes derriere eux et qui dorment dans le tombeau? Invideo, disait Luther dans le cimetiere de Worms, invideo, quia quiescunt.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Hernani
- Author
- HUGO, Victor
- Format/Binding
- Half Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Eugéne Renduel
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1836
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- Literature and modern firsts;
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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