The three musketeers / by Alexandre Dumas ; the translation by William Robson ; with an introduction by Ben Ray Redman ; and illustrations by Pierre Falké.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870, author.

Maquet, Auguste, 1813-1888, author.

Redman, Ben Ray, 1896-1961, author of introduction.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Robson, William, 1785-1863, translator.

Falké, Pierre, illustrator.

Stols, A. A. M. (Alexander Alphonse Marius), 1900-1973, printer.

Limited Editions Club, publisher.

Halcyon Press, printer.

George McKibbin and Son, binder.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Trois mousquetaires. English (Robson)

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Swordplay.

France--History--Louis XIII, 1610-1643--Fiction.

France.

History.

Swordplay--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

History.

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Monotype Bembo.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Falké, Pierre (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection coy v.2)

Vilain, Jean-Franc̜ois, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Simons, Ruthven (bookplate) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Falké, Pierre (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 volumes : color illustrations ; 27 cm

Manufacture:

Maastricht ; Halcyon Press.

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Printed at the Halcyon Press for members of the Limited Editions Club, 1932.

Language Note:

In English, translated from the French.

Notes:

"This edition ... consists of fifteen hundred copies ... It is ... designed by A.A.M. Stols and printed by him at the Halcyon Press in Maastricht ... Signed by Pierre Falké"--Colophon.

"Set in Monotype Bembo; Pannekoek special paper; bound by George McKibbin & Son, New York.--see Quarto-Millenary, page 242, number 38

Written in collaboration with Auguste Maquet.

Issued in a slipcase.

"Printed in Holland"; title page verso.

Both volumes include half-title pages.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy imperfect: v.2 only.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy is no. 1372, signed by Pierre Falké.

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015. Both volumes have original yellow and blue cloth binding and housed in original slipcase.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has number 786 signed by Pierre Falké.

Cited in:

Quarto-Millenary, page 242, number 38

OCLC:

4825007