Victor Hugo et Son Temps [Victor Hugo and His Times] (page 1/2)

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Initial letter D with hiker in forest

This “vignetted” decorative initial features a person with a hat, a satchel, a walking stick, stepping over the initial letter and out of a path in a forest or deep woods. [more...] [$]

Fantine [Les Misérables]

An engraving of a sketch of Fantine as a woman wearing a bonnet with a ribbon and looking away from us. [more...] [$]

Victor Hugo amongst the rocks at Jersey

Victor hugo dans les Rochers de Jersey. [more...] [$]

Gavroche (Les Misérables)

The boy “Gavroche” from the book Les Misérables. A hundred years later the book was made into a musical that was very successful, of coure, and later a film, but at this time it was a book. [more...] [$]

Mournful / Contemplative Full-Page Border With Statues

This full-page decorative border features trees without leaves, presumably in Winter, and statues that from the context we know to be monuments on tombs. In the foreground is a lilly-pond. [more...] [$]