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1890 Rare Book - Notre-Dame, or The Bellringer of Paris by Victor Hugo

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Author: Victor Hugo.
Title: Notre-Dame, or The Bellringer of Paris.
Publisher: London, George Routledge and Sons, Limited, Broadway House, Ludgate Hill, E.C., no date (1890).
Language: Text in English.
Size: 7.5 X 5.5 inches.
Pages: vii-540 pages + publisher's catalog.
Binding: Attractive and very good publisher’s original terracotta cloth binding with richly embossed Art Nouveau floral designs on boards and spine, with “NOTRE DAME” gilt-stamped to front cover and spine (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover. Overall, bright and very appealing.
Content: Good content (tight, scattered foxing particularly to endpapers, outer edges and preliminaries - as shown).

The book: This is a handsome vintage English edition of Victor Hugo’s classic novel Notre-Dame de Paris, famously known in English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. The embossed terracotta binding is a striking example of late Victorian or Edwardian book design, likely issued circa 1890 by George Routledge and Sons, a major English publisher of popular classics. The novel, which revived interest in Gothic architecture and the cathedral of Notre-Dame itself, tells the tragic tale of the bellringer Quasimodo, the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda, and the cruel priest Frollo, set against the backdrop of medieval Paris.

The author: Victor Hugo (1802–1885), one of the greatest French Romantic writers, was a poet, playwright, novelist, and political figure. Renowned internationally, Hugo’s major works include Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris, both of which deeply influenced literature and social thought. His vivid imagination, moral vision, and defense of the marginalized have secured him a lasting place in literary history.