Les Miserables.

Finely bound example of Hugo's masterpiece, with an autograph signed letter from him laid in. Quarto, five volumes. Bound in full brown morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, five raised bands, elaborate tooling to the front and rear panels, ornamental dentelles and ribbon markers.Illustrated with designs by de Neuville, Bayard, Morin, Valnay, and others. With an early autograph letter signed by Hugo tipped in on a prefatory blank leaf in the first volume. The letter is addressed to Hector Bossange, the Paris bookseller who published Hugo's Odes et Ballades in 1828, the same year this original holographic note was written. In near fine condition. An exceptional presentation.