Late 19th Century Volume Set, the Romances of Alexandre Dumas - 40 Books

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Dumas, Alexandre. The Romances of Alexandre Dumas.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1893-1898. Illustrated Library Edition, No. 532 of 1000 … Read more Dumas, Alexandre. The Romances of Alexandre Dumas.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1893-1898. Illustrated Library Edition, No. 532 of 1000 copies. 40 volumes. 8vo; Approx. 17,600 pp. Publisher’s cloth hardcovers, some gently bumped board tips, a few covers damp-stained, gilt decorated and lettered spines, crown/heel fray starting, some volumes slightly cocked, deckled leaf edge/upper gilt, tissue guarded original drawings/etchings interspersed in text. Printed by the University Press: John Wilson and Sons, Cambridge. Very good +. An impressive set, spans over five feet of shelf. Rarely found complete.

Measures: 1.25-1.5 (overall 64) W x 5.75 D x 8.25 H inches.

Titles: Twenty Years After (2 vols.), The Whites and The Blues (2 vols.) The Two Dianas (3 vols.), The Forty Five (2 vols.), The Duke's Page (2 vols.), Olympe De Cleves (2 vols.), La Comptesse de Charny (4 vols.), Ange Pitou (2 vols.), Vicomte De Bragelonne (6 vols.), Marguerite De Valois (2 vols.), La Dame De Monsoreau (2 vols.), Memoirs of a Physician (3 vols.), The Companions of Jehu (2 vols.), The She - Wolves of Machecoul (2 vols.), The Chevalier D'Harmental, Chevalier de Maison Rouge, The Regents Daughter, The Black Tulip.

ABSENT Titles: Women of War (2 volumes), Queen's Necklace (2 vols.), Count of Monte Cristo (4 vols.), Ascanio (2 vols.), The Three Musketeers (2 vols.), Agenor De Mauleon (2 vols.), Sylvandre, Black, The Brigand Blanche de Beaulieu, The Ball of Snow - Sultanetta, Chauvelin's Will - Velvet Necklace.

Provenance: Ex-Libris bookplate (BP) of "Mrs. William Sumner Crosby,"* Gardner Rd., Brookline Massachusetts, circa 1900. Each volume with a hand-written book number, BPs affixed to each front pastedown, *“Eleanor Frances Crosby,” inked above BP, "These are 48 volumes of the Dumas Set," underneath BP, front board verso of Twenty Years After, Volume I. *"Eleanor Davis Crosby" inked above BP, front board verso of The Two Dianas, Volume I. See less