Title
Illustration of "Toilers of the Sea", by Victor Hugo
Caption
Post-Office: 'This barrel is a letter-box. The English sailors must needs go and write up there "Post-Office". What had they to do with it? It is the ocean post-office.'
First part, Book V, chapter IX.
Illustrator: Daniel Vierge. Engraver: Théodore Meyer-Heine.
Illustration from a set of nearly 150 woodcuts published in the Volume XI of Victor Hugo's 'Oeuvres Complètes' including 'Les Travailleurs de la Mer' ('Toilers of the Sea') - written in 1866.
Book published in 1906 by the Société d'éditions Littéraires et Artistiques, Librairie Paul Ollendorff.
Date
1906
Credit line
Photo12/Pierre Pitrou
Reference
PTR22A00_096
License type
Rights managed
Available size
142,9Mb (14,0Mb) / 21,7in x 25,6in / 6496 x 7689 (300dpi)