Book Description

HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE - DAME. --- Bound with: THE WAR TRAIL, Or Hunt of the wild Horse, by Captain Mayne Reid. HUGO. VICTOR. ---- Reid. Captain Mayne. Thomas Hodgson. London. 1st work and; J. and C. Brown. London. 2nd work. - No date. Circa 1856 and 1857, 1856. Two volumes bound in one. 8vo. (6.4 x 4.2 inches). First work is 466pp; second is 418pp. Fine early leather binding of half black calf. Spine with raised bands, each with wavy line gilt decoration. Compartments double ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt. Marbled paper on boards. Tan endpapers. A very good and attractive Victorian leather binding. Hunchback of Notre-Dame is book number 151 in the Parlour Library series, which Hodgson took over publishing from the Belfast firm of Simms and McIntyre (who started the series in 1847) in 1853. The National Library of Ireland dates their copy to 1856. Sadleir 3755a. --- The Mayne Reid title was first published in 1857.
Author HUGO. VICTOR. ---- Reid. Captain Mayne.
Date Circa 1856 and 1857, 1856.
Publisher Thomas Hodgson. London. 1st work and; J. and C. Brown. London. 2nd work. - No date.

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