Author: Alexandre Dumas
Title: The Forty-Five Guardsmen: An Historical Romance
Description: London, George Routledge & Sons, [1881]. Leather. Aramis edition of this historical novel by Alexandre Dumas, last volume in the Valois trilogy with illustrations by Tilney and charmingly rebound by F. & E. Stoneham. The Aramis edition by Routledge of this novel by Alexandre Dumas, concluding the Valois trilogy preceded by La Reine Margot and La Dame de Monsoreau featuring the figure of Chicot the Jester, cunning jester of King Henry III and later Henry IV of France. A tale of Diane de Meridor's revenge on the Duke of Anjou. Illustrated with a coloured frontispiece and other coloured plates by F. C. Tilney. Rebound in half calf binding over cloth covered boards by F. & E Stoneham with five raised bands gilt tooling to spine, gilt to top edge, new marbled endpapers. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear, only sunned to spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. With a coloured frontispiece and black and white illustrations. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: F. C. Tilney. Very Good Indeed .

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