Dumas | The Three Musketeers, London, Routledge, 1853, half calf

Alexandre Dumas

The Three Musketeers... translated by William Robson. London: George Routledge and Co., 1853

12mo (156 x 98mm.), contemporary half calf, lacking half-title, small stain on S2-3, rebacked retaining most of original spine

Number 60 in Routledge's Railway Library series, "a deliberate and not altogether scrupulous imitation of the Parlour Library, which it sedulously copied in outward appearance as well as in appeal for public favour" (Sadleir, p. 167). The first English translation appeared in 1846.

LITERATURE

Munro p. 81; Sadleir 3758 (Routledge's Railway Library)