HUGO (Victor). Les Misérables. Paris: Pagnerre, 1862. - 10 volumes in-8, 220 x 139: portrait, (2 ff.), II, 355 pp., 4 plates; (2 ff.), 382 pp., 4 plates; (2 ff.), 351 pp., 2 plates; (2 ff.), 318 pp., 2 plates; (2 ff.), 320 pp, 2 plates; (2 ff.), 297 pp. 3 plates; (2 ff.), 432 pp. 2 plates; (2 ff.), 399 pp. 2 plates; (2 ff.), 400 pp. 3 plates; (2 ff.), 311 pp. 1 plate. Brown half-chagrin, spine ribbed and decorated (contemporary binding). First edition published in France of one of the monuments of nineteenth-century French literature. It appeared only two days after the Belgian original. A copy with no edition markings, enriched by the suite consisting of a photographic portrait of the author by Edmond Bacot and 25 photographs on albumen paper by Gilmer, pasted on applied China paper, reproducing the first drawings made for Les Misérables by Gustave Brion between 1862 and 1865. Used rubbing to bindings. Some light wetness. One plate loose in the second and eighth volumes.