Les Misérables – Victor Hugo (2-Vol Illustrated Hapgood Trans.) Crowell 1887

First issued just 25 years after Hugo’s magnum opus stormed France, the 1887 Hapgood translation became the English-language benchmark for Les Misérables readers and performers alike. Crowell’s New York house dressed the work in two hefty, uniform volumes whose ribbed emerald boards, gilt spine titles and armorial crest still display proudly on a shelf. Inside, scores of full-page steel and photogravure illustrations dramatise Fantine’s fall, Cosette’s rescue and the sewers of Paris, protected by original tissue guards (several shown in photos).Your set shows typical late-Victorian traits—tanned but supple paper, tight text-blocks, and lightly bruised corners—plus a discreet gift inscription and an internal hinge crack that remains holding; no loose signatures noted. Readers get Hapgood’s unabridged text in the very format that fuelled turn-of-the-century English-speakers’ fascination with Hugo, while collectors gain an affordable, display-worthy artifact of Gilded-Age book-making. Whether staged on a library ladder, read aloud chapter by chapter, or offered as a thoughtful gift, this antique pairing bridges story and object with enduring charm.Item Breakdown:- Author: Victor Hugo - Translator: Isabel F. Hapgood (first English complete, 1887) - Title: Les Misérables- Volumes: I – Fantine, Cosette, Marius; II – St. Denis, Jean Valjean (complete) - Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., New York - Year: 1887 copyright pages in each volume - Edition: “Illustrated” cloth