HUGO, Victor.

£1,250 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Les Misérables. Third edition of the authorized English translation. First published in full in October 1862, the Sir Frederic Wraxall translation was preceded only by the first two instalments of the pirated version which was published in New York between June and July of the same year. The original French edition appeared earlier in 1862.Provenance: A childhood gift from Dudley Massey to Stephen C. Massey.

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