Les Quarante-Cinq. [The Forty-Five Guardsmen].
Le Vasseur's "Alexandre Dumas Illustré" edition of Dumas' Les Quarante-Cinq
Les Quarante-Cinq. [The Forty-Five Guardsmen].
DUMAS, Alexandre.
$300.00
Item Number: 117946
Paris: A. Le Vasseur et Cie, Editeurs, nd.
Le Vasseur’s “Alexandre Dumas Illustré” edition of third and final work in Dumas’ Valois trilogy. Quarto, original wrappers, frontispiece, illustrations by d’Alphonse de Neuville. In very good condition.
A collaboration between Alxandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet, Les Quarante-Cinq opens thirteen years after the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre and ten years into the reign of Henry III of France as the young king attempts to calm the religious and political intrigues dividing the kingdom.