Dumas | Marguerite de Valois, London, 1847, later half leather

Alexandre Dumas

Marguerite de Valois: an historical romance. London: David Bogue, 1847

8vo (177 x 107mm.), half-title, lithographed frontispiece portrait of the author, later half leather over marbled boards by Wm. H. Talcott & Bro. of Hartford, Connecticut, with ticket on inside lower cover, frontispiece slightly stained, occasional light foxing, last few leaves lightly browned, joints repaired 

An early English edition of La reine Margot, from the European Library series, as stated on the half-title; this is a reissue of Bogue's 1846 text with the date altered on the title-page to 1847. A more condensed English translation was previously published by George Peirce, undated but probably in 1845-1846; the present translation was the one used for later English editions.

LITERATURE

Munro p. 101 (with the publication date as 1846)