Bug-Jargal, by the author of Han of Iceland. Paris, Urbain Canel, 1826.
Fort in-16 with 1 frontispiece, (2) ff., IV pp., 386 pp., (1) f. of publisher's advertisement: brown calf with blue highlights, spine and boards decorated with relief, gilt lace inside, burgundy silk linings and endpapers, untrimmed (L. Dézé).
First edition: it is adorned with an etched frontispiece after Devéria.
Published without an author's name, Victor Hugo's first novel deals with the tragic fate of Bug-Jargal, a black slave, during the Saint-Dominique revolt in 1791.
Curious decorated binding by Louis Dézé in calfskin with embossed and stained decoration.
Dezé's work usually covers books of little interest: this literary first edition is an exception.
Author in 1870 with Jean Valmy-Baisse of a bibliography of Gustave Doré, Louis Dezé (1857-1930) was a singular bookbinder whose decorations executed with embossed and tinted leathers are characteristic of the period
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