1888 Rare Victorian Gothic Book - Notre-Dame de Paris or The Bellringer of Paris by Victor Hugo.

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Author: Victor Hugo. Translated from the French by Isabel F. Hapgood.
Title: Notre-Dame de Paris. (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame). (Complete two volumes bound into one).
Publisher: New York, Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., no date (1888).
Language: Text in English.
Size: 8 " X 5.5 ".
Pages: vi-257, iv-315 pages.
Binding: Attractive and near fine original full cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean - as shown). 
Illustrations: Complete with the beautiful 6 full-page and vignette illustrations.

The book: Attractive and rare Victorian edition in one volume of The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (French: Notre-Dame de Paris, "Our Lady of Paris") - a French Romantic/Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1831. The novel's original French title, Notre-Dame de Paris, is a metaphor: it refers to Notre Dame Cathedral, on which the story is centered, and Esmeralda, the novel's main character who is "our lady of Paris" and the center of the human drama within the story. Frederic Shoberl's 1833 English translation was published as The Hunchback of Notre Dame (which became the generally used title in English), which refers to Quasimodo, Notre Dame's bellringer.

The author: Victor Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. Hugo is considered to be one of the greatest and best-known French writers. Outside of France, his most famous works are the novels Les Misérables, 1862, and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (French: Notre-Dame de Paris), 1831. In France, Hugo is known primarily for his poetry collections, such as Les Contemplations (The Contemplations) and La Légende des siècles (The Legend of the Ages).