The Count of Monte-Cristo.

DUMAS, Alexandre [Alexander].

Item Number: 4548

London: London: Chapman and Hall, 1846.

First edition in English of the author’s masterpiece, published just one year after the original French edition and before the American first. Octavo, 2 volumes. Three quarters contemporary brown calf over marbled boards. Gilt titles to the spine. Twenty wood-engraved plates after Henry Valentin. In very good condition with some light rubbing to the extremities. First editions in the English language are rare.

The Count of Monte Cristo, in particular, is "perhaps the outstanding work of fiction to reveal the futility of human vengeance, even when it attains its utmost completeness. Maurice Baring calls it the most popular book in the world" (Frank Wild Reed). "One of the best thrillers ever written" (Reid, 134).