Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo - Illustrated by Nicolas Eustache Maurin

Victor Hugo's celebrated gothic novel Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame) was first published in Paris, 1831. This initial edition was illustrated with a single frontispiece in black. Three years later in 1834, François Bulla published a new edition with six colour lithographs commissioned to Nicolas Eustache Maurin. Capitalizing on the success and popularity of this novel, Bulla and Maurin collaborated once again in 1841 to produce eight additional lithographs. These striking illustrations set this volume apart from the many editions that soon followed; especially at a time when printing technology was just beginning to flourish. Below are twelve of those lithographs with two very similar ones omitted. Despite being almost two centuries old, these illustrations still hold up very well when compared to modern depictions.