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Au Phare, à l'Obus, aux Deux Eléphants, au Globe Doré... These famous Jules Verne elaborately decorated cloths are the finest publisher's bindings of the 19th century. Discover the extraordinary journey of the Editions Hetzel.

They are called deluxe papers, limited editions, tirages de têtes or simply first editions. They were printed in small numbers on special paper and carefully preserved, from the very beginning, by the first readers and admirers of these literary geniuses. These copies are the origin of the work and its legacy.

Signed books, autograph letters and manuscripts by Victor Hugo, the greatest of french writers.

They are art and craft, the fruit of fleeting artistic inspiration and patient technical development. Engravings are multiple and yet unique, enhanced with colors, signed, numbered: an aesthetic testimony of an era, and timeless icons.

They are the sign of a desire, of a trust in the recipient, they lay bare the individual behind the writer, a final trace of the writing hand on the finished work - intimately subjected to the particular gaze of a close friend, a peer or an influential critic.