{"product_id":"the-hunchback-of-notre-dame-by-victor-hugo-1838-second-english-edition","title":"THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE-DAME BY VICTOR HUGO 1838 SECOND ENGLISH EDITION","description":"\u003cp\u003e[HUGO, VICTOR]. \u003cstrong\u003eThe Hunchback of Notre-Dame. Translated Expressly for this Edition; with a Sketch of the Life and Writings of the Author; by Frederic Shoberl. \u003c\/strong\u003eLondon: Richard Bentley, 1838.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSECOND EDITION OF THE FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION. Leather-bound; hardcover; octavo (17.5 x 11 x 3 cm); pp. xiv. 466, [2]. English text. Handsomely bound in contemporary half red calf, binder's ticket of Narracott, Torquay to rear pastedown; black title label; gilt-tooled raised bands; gilt rules and vermiculated rules in blind framing compartments; orange endpapers; page edges speckled red; engraved frontispiece and vignette title-page by W. Greatbatch after E. Pickering. Provenance: Contemporary armorial bookplate of MacLean of Ardgour, Argyll. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure, the hinges and joints intact. Extremities and spine slightly rubbed. Interior well-preserved with some light foxing confined to the frontispiece, vignette title and rear endpapers. An excellent copy. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: Second edition of the first English translation. Following the French edition of 1831, Frederic Shoberl's translation was issued as number 32 in Bentley's Standard Novels. This was a series of freshly revised texts in affordable editions of major contemporary authors, and it did much to introduce high-calibre international writers such as Victor Hugo to British middle-class readers.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MFR Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57362405196151,"sku":null,"price":3750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/files\/SAM_3419_8f23fa83-0af7-4dca-9998-dfc11e1eafd0.jpg?v=1786226133","url":"https:\/\/rarebooksboutique.com\/products\/the-hunchback-of-notre-dame-by-victor-hugo-1838-second-english-edition","provider":"MFR Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}