HUGO, Victor.

Discours de l'exil. 1851-1854 ... Premier tirage ...

Geneva and New York [Jersey, Imprimerie universelle, 1854 = Brussels, Henri Samuel]. 32mo, pp. [2],53, [1], printed on pale blue paper; a fine copy, stitched as issued. First edition of Hugo’s most important political volume published in exile in Jersey, containing ten essays on ‘The United States of Europe’, ‘Insurrection’, ‘The Rights of Women’, ‘Future Revolution’, etc. A number of the contents, including his open letter to Lord Palmerston, and his addresses on the anniversaries of the Polish revolution of 1830 and the 1848 Revolution, were also printed separately. Printed, according to the title-page, in ‘Cent mille exemplaires’, it is nevertheless rare. OCLC shows copies at McGill and Indiana only.

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