The Toilers of the Sea.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Victor Hugo's third major prose novel. Royal octavo, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe / Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, top edge gilt, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, illustrated with black and white wood-engravings. Boldly signed by illustrator Tranquillo Marangoni and printer Giovanni Mardersteig of Verona at the Officina Bodoni on the colophon page at the rear. One of 1,500 numbered copies, this is number 511. In fine condition with light sunning to the spine. Translated from the French by Isabel F. Hapgood. Introduction by Matthew Josephson. Illustrated by engraver Tranquillo Marangoni.