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INSCRIBED HUGO, VICTOR-MARIE. Ode sur la Naissance de Son Altesse Royale Monseigneur le Duc de Bordeaux suivie d'une Ode sur la Mort de Son Altesse Royale Monseigneur le Duc de Berri. 14, [2] pages. 8vo, original green wrappers, worn, covers loose; contents clean; uncut. Paris: Anthe. Boucher et al., 1822
first separate edition of one of hugo's earliest publications, issued in only a small number of copies, consisting of poems he wrote at the age of 20 that originally appeared in Conservateur Littéraire, Volume 3, Number 23, pages 81-85. Talvart & Place IX, 9. inscribed and initialled: "à Monsieur Ancelot, témoignage de haute estime et de sincère amitié, V-M H." The recipient was conceivably the playwright Jacques-François-Arsène Ancelot, whose wife, also an author, hosted a prominent literary salon frequented by Hugo.
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