[HUGO, Victor.]

Recueil de l'Académie des Jeux Floraux.

Toulouse, Chez M.-J. Dalles, 1818-1822. 5 vols. bound in 4; 8vo, fine copies in entirely original condition, uncut and partially unopened in the original paper wrappers, printed paper labels on spines; in a later morocco backed slip-case. First edition of Victor Hugo's first poems, which appeared in this very rare series of five collections of the 'Académie des jeux floraux' for the years 1818 to 1822, the years in which Hugo took part in the annual poetry competition. The Toulouse academy was the oldest in Europe, founded in 1323, and organising poetry festivals from 1324. Hugo's elder brother Eugène won the prize in 1818. Hugo submitted four poems in 1818, three in 1819, three in 1820, one in 1821 and one in 1822. In 1819 he was awarded the amarante d'or for his ode 'Les Vierges de Verdun' and a lys d'or, the highest accolade, for 'Le Rétablissement de la statue de Henri IV'. Carteret I, 384.

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