Hugo, Victor. Notre-Dame de Paris

Paris, Perrotin, 1844. (2),485,(3) p., w. 55 (full-p.) steel-engravings and many ills. by a.o. de Beaumont, Boulanger and Johannot. Contemp. gilt hmor., 4to.

Foxed throughout; else very good. Victor Hugo (1802–1885), one of France's foremost writers 19th-century writers, is celebrated for his novels, poetry, and plays. Notre-Dame de Paris, first published in 1831, ranks among his most important works, set in fifteenth-century Paris and centred on the cathedral of Notre-Dame and its principal characters.