HUGO Victor (1802-1885). - Lot 115

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HUGO Victor (1802-1885). - Lot 115
HUGO Victor (1802-1885). Hernani ou l'Honneur castillan (Paris, Mame et Delaunay-Vallée, 1830); in-8, 2 ff. and VII-154 p., bound with 4 contemporary parodies, 5 works in one vol. half-maroquin a grain long red with corners, smooth spine decorated with gilded motifs (Hering & Muller). First edition of Hernani, bound with four contemporary parodies of the play. Copy of the very first printing with "Vous êtes mon seigneur, vaillant et généreux!" in act III, scene V. Four parodies were bound in afterwards: - Harnali ou La Contrainte par cor, parody in five tableaux and in verse by M. Auguste de Lauzanne, represented for the first time in Paris on the stage of the Vaudeville theater (Paris, Bézou, 1830). - N, I, NI, or Le Danger des Castilles, amphigouri-romantic, in five acts and in sublime verses, mixed with ridiculous prose, by MM. Carmouche, de Courcy and Dupeuty. Classical music, new bridges, etc., arranged by Mr. Alexandre Piccini. First performed in Paris at the Porte Saint-Martin theater on 12 March 1830 (Paris, Bézou, 1830). - Oh! Qu'enni ou Le Mirliton fatal, parody of Hernani in five tableaux by MM. Brazier and Carmouche, first performed at the Théâtre de la Gaîté on March 16, 1830 (Paris, R. Riga, 1830). - Réflexions d'un infirmier de l'hospice de la Pitié sur le drame d'Hernani de M. Victor Hugo (Paris, Roy- Terry, 1830). Enriched copy of documents: - 2 handwritten quatrains in homage to Hugo; -watercolor lithograph Enfoncé Racine (21,5 x 25,5 cm); - portrait of Victor Hugo engraved by Pollet (in-8); - L.A.S. from Victor HUGO to Maxime Vernier, November [1829] (2 p. in-8); - engraved portrait of Victor Hugo after Jullien (in-8); - lithograph by V. Ratier, after Deveria, depicting the last scene of Hernani. (22 x 21,6 cm, folded); - folding lithograph in black by Pierre Langlumé, Sublime d'Hernani, plat romantique (21,3 x 26 cm); - 2 watercolor engravings by Louis Maleuvre representing the actresses Mlle Mars and Mlle Despréaux in their stage costumes. Minor foxing, marginal tears, small marginal tears, binding rubbed, upper hinge broken, volume partly detached from the binding.
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