NMLP P-043142 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Notre-Dame de Paris)
Victor Hugo · Charles Gosselin, Paris (French true first, 1831); Richard Bentley, London (first English, 1833) · 1831
No book-club structure applies to an 1831/1833 book; the practical analogues are marketing fictions and later reissues. Gosselin's own 'deuxieme/troisieme/quatrieme edition' title-pages are not later editions at all — they are the same 1831 printing given false statements — but they are equally not first issue. Bentley reissued the Shoberl translation repeatedly in Standard Novels through the 1830s and 1840s, and those later impressions look nearly identical. Renduel's 1832 'eighth edition' and the illustrated Renduel of 1836 are later editions notwithstanding catalogue copy that promotes them as 'first complete' or 'first illustrated', and the Hetzel/Houssiaux collected sets and modern facsimiles are reprints.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-043142 for "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Notre-Dame de Paris)" by Victor Hugo (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-043142, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).