Dumas, Three Musketeers, 2v.Ed 1894, 250 Leloir ill.
"The Three Musketeers", by Alexander Dumas, translated by William Robson, with A Letter from Alexandre Dumas Fils, with 250 illustrations by Maurice Leloir, engraved on wood by J. Huyot, Limited Edition before publication published by Appleton, New York in 1894, complete in two volumes, large and heavy folio. Printed in Edinburgh, Great Britain, September 1894. First limited issue of the illustrated edition.
Limited Presentation Edition of 750 numbered and 25 unnumbered copies. Copy #260, issued 1894, one year before the official publication.
"In the months of March-July 1844, in the magazine Le Siecle, the first portion of a story appeared, penned by the celebrated playwright Alexandre Dumas. It was based, he claimed, on some manuscripts he had found a year earlier in the Bibliotheque Nationale while researching a history he planned to write on Louis XIV.
Maurice Leloir (1853-1940) French historical painter, watercolorist, engraver, illustrator, playwright and film producer. Leloir was born into a family of successful artists. He received his formal training with his father, historical painter Jean-Baptiste Auguste Leloir (1809-1992), his mother watercolorist Heloise Colin (1820-1874), daughter of Alexander-Marie Colin (1798-1873) and with his older brother Alexander-Louis Leloir (1843-1884).
Maurice Leloir was a successful illustrator. Illustrating works by philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), playwright Jean-Baptiste Moliere (1622-1673), and novelists Honore de Balzac (1799-1859). He was also talented playwright. Leloir was the founder and president the Costume Society in 1906 and wrote the Dictionary of Costume, which he also illustrated.
Leloir went to America in 1928 at the invitation of the silent screen star Douglas Fairbanks to serve as an artistic advisor on the film "The Man in the Iron Mask", staring Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford and based on the final novel in Alexandre Dumas' Les mousquetaires trilogy (1844-1850). Leloir's much re-published 1894 illustrations for Les trois mousquetaires, the first novel in the trilogy, had long been accepted, in Hollywood and elsewhere, as the novel's authentic illustrations and Fairbanks conceived his screenplay for "The Man in the Iron Mask", as a sequel to his own hugely successful 1921 film "The Three Musketeers". Leloir was also commissioned to design theatre scenes for Sarah Bernhardt, Andre Antoine, Albert Carre and Firmin Gemier.
Rates vary per country, we adjust shipping costs with the invoice.
US: Priority (c 2-4 days) --------- $29.50
Canada: Priority (c 2-7 weeks) ---- $70.00
World: Priority (c 2-9 weeks) ---- $105.00
Condition Report: Hard covers, original publisher's red and tan cloth (a little wear & soiling, spine-ends wear: see pictures); 8.1/2" x 12.1/4"; cream-brown endpapers (some creasing at the hinges); gold upper page edges; 472 + 462 pages; some or little foxing, (see examples); printed on high quality glossy paper; very good binding and condition.
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"The Three Musketeers", by Alexander Dumas, translated by William Robson, with A Letter from Alexandre Dumas Fils, with 250 illustrations by Maurice Leloir, engraved on wood by J. Huyot, Limited Edition before publication published by Appleton, New York in 1894, complete in two volumes, large and heavy folio. Printed in Edinburgh, Great Britain, September 1894. First limited issue of the illustrated edition.
Limited Presentation Edition of 750 numbered and 25 unnumbered copies. Copy #260, issued 1894, one year before the official publication.
"In the months of March-July 1844, in the magazine Le Siecle, the first portion of a story appeared, penned by the celebrated playwright Alexandre Dumas. It was based, he claimed, on some manuscripts he had found a year earlier in the Bibliotheque Nationale while researching a history he planned to write on Louis XIV.
Maurice Leloir (1853-1940) French historical painter, watercolorist, engraver, illustrator, playwright and film producer. Leloir was born into a family of successful artists. He received his formal training with his father, historical painter Jean-Baptiste Auguste Leloir (1809-1992), his mother watercolorist Heloise Colin (1820-1874), daughter of Alexander-Marie Colin (1798-1873) and with his older brother Alexander-Louis Leloir (1843-1884).
Maurice Leloir was a successful illustrator. Illustrating works by philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), playwright Jean-Baptiste Moliere (1622-1673), and novelists Honore de Balzac (1799-1859). He was also talented playwright. Leloir was the founder and president the Costume Society in 1906 and wrote the Dictionary of Costume, which he also illustrated.
Leloir went to America in 1928 at the invitation of the silent screen star Douglas Fairbanks to serve as an artistic advisor on the film "The Man in the Iron Mask", staring Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford and based on the final novel in Alexandre Dumas' Les mousquetaires trilogy (1844-1850). Leloir's much re-published 1894 illustrations for Les trois mousquetaires, the first novel in the trilogy, had long been accepted, in Hollywood and elsewhere, as the novel's authentic illustrations and Fairbanks conceived his screenplay for "The Man in the Iron Mask", as a sequel to his own hugely successful 1921 film "The Three Musketeers". Leloir was also commissioned to design theatre scenes for Sarah Bernhardt, Andre Antoine, Albert Carre and Firmin Gemier.
Rates vary per country, we adjust shipping costs with the invoice.
US: Priority (c 2-4 days) --------- $29.50
Canada: Priority (c 2-7 weeks) ---- $70.00
World: Priority (c 2-9 weeks) ---- $105.00
Condition Report: Hard covers, original publisher's red and tan cloth (a little wear & soiling, spine-ends wear: see pictures); 8.1/2" x 12.1/4"; cream-brown endpapers (some creasing at the hinges); gold upper page edges; 472 + 462 pages; some or little foxing, (see examples); printed on high quality glossy paper; very good binding and condition.
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