DUMAS, Alexandre. LELOIR, Maurice., The Three Musketeers.

Paris, Calmann Lévy, 1894. 2 volumes, in-4 (30 x 21 cm), XX–479 pp. and (2) ff., 469 pp. (1) ff. Contemporary navy blue morocco, ribbed spine edged with cold-stamped fillets running across the covers, author’s name, title and volume number gilded, a panel adorned with three gilded swords crossed around a red mosaic cross, inner covers lined with peacock-blue morocco decorated with gilt swords at the corners; the front inner cover features the insignia of the Musketeers, comprising three crossed swords around a cross, a shoulder strap and a belt, the whole executed in morocco leather of various shades and enhanced with gilt piping, red silk lining on the endpapers, gilt edges, cover and spine preserved, in a marbled slipcase [Ch. Meunier, [18]99] (minor scuffing on the slipcases).

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