Los Trabajadores de la mar [Les Travailleurs de la mer].

Hugo (Victor)

Los Trabajadores de la mar [Les Travailleurs de la mer].

Traduccion Mexicana.

Description: FIRST MEXICAN EDITION, 3 lithographed plates by Constantino Escalante, textblock a little open at gutter following title-page, the next leaf loose at head but secure, one leaf towards rear with tear to fore-margin, occasional very faint browning, towards the rear some leaves with browning caused by waterstain to fore-edge, a few pages with a vertical streak of blue, likely from printing, pp.[ii], iv, 3-360, 8vo, contemporary quarter red calf with marbled boards, backstrip lettered in gilt ('Tarbajadores'), worn with some splitting to upper joint, tear at head of backstrip, fair

Publication Details: [Mexico City]: Villegas y Elizaga, Imprenta Literaria, 1866

Notes: Scarce – not on WorldCat, but a copy recorded at the Biblioteca Nacional de México. Published in the same year as the first edition (that published in Belgium); an edition in Spanish, translated by Antonio Ribot, was also published in Madrid – the translator here is uncredited. Another copy, previously on the market, included a frontispiece portrait of the author – here removed; present, though, are the three illustrations – seemingly original to this edition, by Mexican artist Constantino Escalante.Published during the Second Franco-Mexican War, the receptiveness there to one of th...moreScarce – not on WorldCat, but a copy recorded at the Biblioteca Nacional de México. Published in the same year as the first edition (that published in Belgium); an edition in Spanish, translated by Antonio Ribot, was also published in Madrid – the translator here is uncredited. Another copy, previously on the market, included a frontispiece portrait of the author – here removed; present, though, are the three illustrations – seemingly original to this edition, by Mexican artist Constantino Escalante.Published during the Second Franco-Mexican War, the receptiveness there to one of the invading country's major authors can be explained by Hugo at this stage being in political exile for his opposition to Napoleon III – in Guernsey, where the novel is set and to whose people it is dedicated; its 'resistance' credentials reinforced by the presence of the work of Escalante, who was an outspoken opponent of the French forces. HIDE

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Price: £600

Subject: Literature

Published Date: 1866

Stock Number: 72476

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