Books

Paris, E. Renduel, 1836, (4),631 p., with steel-engraved frontispiece and 11 plates after Louis Boulanger, Camille Rogier, Alfred and Tony Johannot and others, contemporary green halfleather. Copy with foxing; leather across upper hinge split; spine discoloured and dam. to top. The rare first illustrated edition, no copies in PiCarta. The first edition of the The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, as it is known in English, appeared in 1831.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a French Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1831. The story is set in Paris in 1482 during the reign of Louis XI and follows the deformed bell-ringer of Notre Dame, Quasimodo, who falls in love with the beautiful gypsy, Esmeralda.