Author: HUGO, Victor
Title: The Toilers of the Sea
Description: Verona, Limited Editions Club, 1960. Hardcover. Small quarto (7-1/8" x 10-1/4") bound with a soft black cotton spine and decorated boards. Hapgood's translation, edited and augmented by David Glixon for the first complete English text. Designed by Giovanni Mardersteig and printed by him at the Officina Bodoni. Illustrated with 99 wood engravings of various sizes by Tranquillo Marangoni. Of a total of 1500 copies SIGNED by the artist and by the designer on the colophon page, this copy is not numbered (in place of the number is written in ink "Office Copy") and bears the Club's blindstamp stating it is one of 15 presentation copies. Monthly Letter, illustrated and longer than the typical LEC letter, laid in. Ill.: Tranquillo Marangoni. Very slight sunning to the spine. About Fine in a Fine slipcase .

Keywords: Signed, Wood Engravings, Victor Hugo, Illustrated Books, LEC, Limited Editions Club, Officina Bodoni Tranquillo Marangoni Signed Officina Bodoni Illustrated Books Fine Press


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