Second Authorized English Edition of Les Misérables

Victor Hugo. LES MISÉRABLES. (3) volumes (complete). London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, Successors to Henry Colburn, 1862. Authorized English Translation (Copyright); second edition. Uniformly rebound in half leather over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt-ruled spine with gilt-lettered labels, with marbled endpapers and all edges marbled. 8vo; [2], viii, 395, [1]pp.; [3], vi-viii, 408pp.; viii, 404pp. Vol. I and III with half-titles.

Each 7 1/2 x 5 in.

From a Private North Carolina Collection

First published in French in March 1862, this second edition of the authorized English edition was published later that same year.

Lacking adverts at the end of vol. III; boards with rubbing, peeling to leather, and wear to extremities; light hinge cracking; overall clean text blocks with mild toning, occasional pencil notations, small stain, and light grime, and with infrequent handling wear and foxing (concentrated at endpapers and half-titles). An about very good and scarce set.