Description: VICTOR HUGO'S CLASSIC!! LES MISERABLES COMPLETE IN TWO VOLUMES WITH NEARLY 1400 pages!! Another One of the Most Important Books Ever Printed! ART NOUVEAU BINDING Complete with Original Art Nouveau Cover and Spine in Heavy Gold!LES MISERABLES BY VICTOR HUGO One of the top books of all time - THIS BOOK IS A CLASSIC 1913 Edition with this classic art nouveau binding Complete! NO MISSING PAGES - WONDERFUL!! Few were Issued in this Leather art nouveau form!! These two volumes are Beautiful!! EXTREMELY RARE AND BEAUTIFUL, ORIGINAL ART NOUVEAU/ARTS AND CRAFTS BINDING!! ABSOLUTE CLASSIC Probably in the top 5 Most important Books of the 19th Century! HENCE ITS SCARCITY LES MIS - HAS BECOME ONE OF THE MOST COLLECTED BOOKS ON THE MARKET - ITS POPULARITY SOARED WITH THE MUSICALS AND DVD's AND HAS BEEN SO COLLECTED IN THE RARE EDITIONS THIS IS A SCARCE EDITION - RARELY SEEN IN THE FULL LEATHERAbsolutely fantastic!! Art Nouveau was of course made famous by people like Jessie M. King, Aubrey Beardsley, Charles Ricketts, Edward Burne Jones, William Morris and the Kelmscott Press, James McNeill Whistler, Will Bradley, Walter Crane, Louis Rhead, Paul Berthon, Privat Livemont, Alphonse Mucha and others who illustrated posters printed by Maitres de L'Affiche, Laurence Housman, Charles Rene Mackintosh and the Glasgow School of Art, Talwin Morris, Katherine Cameron, C.R. Ashbee, Arthur Rackham, Charles Robinson, Edmund Sullivan, Anning Bell, Harry Clarke, Eric Gill and many others!! and was linked so closely to Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt, Ford Madox Brown, Edward Burne Jones, Arthur Hughes, Frederick Sandys, Lawrence Alma Tadema, George Frederick Watts, John William Waterhouse, and many, many others! Overall in the best condition one could expect from a book of this age. The beautiful binding is in very good condition, just a little rubbed around the edges - NO foxing to text blockMuch more scarce than Hugh Thomson's Peacock Binding for Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen!!! LOOK AT MY OTHER AUCTIONS FOR OTHER QUALITY ILLUSTRATED BOOKS Very Important Books! Very Good Condition!! The successful bidder to pay $15.95 shipping
Price: 249.95 USD
Location: Mona, Utah
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Leather
Special Attributes: Luxury Edition
Author: Victor Hugo
Printing Year: 1913
Subject: CLASSIC LITERATURE
Year Printed: 1913
Original/Facsimile: Original
