Books

Foreword by Andrew Graham-Dixon; Introduction by acclaimed Hugo Biographer Graham Robb. Limited to 1,250 numbered copies. the first edition published with all of Victor Hugo?s original wash ink illustrations. **quarter-bound in Indian goatskin leather; **Printed cloth boards displaying Hugo?s Octopus which Gilliatt faces; **Printed on Veltique Ivory paper; **Endpapers of Canson Mi Teintes; **528 pages with 36 colour illustrations (Victor Hugo?s original wash ink illustrations placed where the master himself intended them to be); **gilded top edge; 446 pages. Book size: 7 1/2" x 9 1/2". **Presented in a cloth-bound solander box with gilt lettered spine and an artwork paste-down on front.

Victor Hugo's novel 'Toilers of the Sea' is set in the Channel Islands and follows the story of a fisherman and his struggles with the sea.