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    By Victor Hugo
    London   Smith, Elder, & Co
    8" by 5" [5], vi-xliii, [2], 2-192pp
    The first English edition of Victor Hugo's novel condemning the death penalty in France.
    By Victor Hugo

    1840 The Last Days of a Condemned

    London   Smith, Elder, & Co
    8" by 5" [5], vi-xliii, [2], 2-192pp
    The first English edition of Victor Hugo's novel condemning the death penalty in France.
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    Description

    First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Rebound

    The first English edition of this work.

    Victor Hugo's short novel that expresses his feelings on the death penalty, his treatise on why it should be abolished.

    A romanticism novel originally published as 'Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamne'.

    Written by the popular French author Victor Hugo, best known for 'Les Miserables'.

    With 'Observations on Capital Punishment' by Sir P. Hesketh Fleetwood.

    Condition

    In the original publisher's cloth binding, rebacked with the original boards and spine restored. Externally, with a little discolouration and minor marks to the boards and spine. Light mark to the front pastedown and endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with a few odd spots.

    Very Good

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