THE TOILERS OF THE SEA

First edition with these illustrations. Limited edition. Publisher's quarter brown Indian leather with titles in gilt to the spine. Illustrated cloth boards. Top edge gilt. Printed on Veltique Ivory paper. With 36 colour ink wash illustrations by the author. Foreword by Andrew Graham-Dixon, introduction by Graham Robb. Housed in the publisher's cloth solander case with gilt titles to the spine and gilt ruled illustration to the upper panel. A superb fine copy.

Limited to 1250 copies of which this is hand-numbered 176. The novel was first published in Brussells in 1866, however this Folio Society edition is the first to contain Victor Hugo's original illustrations.

Stock code: 27475

£300

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Published:

London: The Folio Society.
2014

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