The Count of Monte-Cristo.

DUMAS, Alexandre [Alexander].

Item Number: 3578

London: London: Chapman and Hall, 1846.

First English edition of the author’s masterpiece, published just one year after the original French edition. Octavo, 2 volumes. Three quarters navy blue leather of marbled boards. Gilt titles to the spine. Twenty wood-engraved plates after Henry Valentin. In very good condition with 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).