HUGO Victor (1802-1885). L'Année terrible (Paris, Michel Lévy frères, 1872); in-8, brown half-maroquin, spine gilt, cover preserved (20th century binding). First edition. One of 25 copies on China paper (the only large paper) of Hugo's great poetic collection retracing the history of France in 1871, a period of upheaval that saw the defeat of France, the siege of Paris, the fall of the Second Empire and the advent of the Republic. Some foxing and rubbing.