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The Forty-Five Guardsmen: An Historical Romance
by Alexandre Dumas
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Indeed
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About This Item
London: George Routledge & Sons, [1881]. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 7.5" by 5" . F. C. Tilney. 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
Synopsis
Etiamsi omnes !Le 26 octobre de l'an 1585, les barrieres de la porte Saint- Antoine se trouvaient encore, contre toutes les habitudes, fermees a dix heures et demie du matin.A dix heures trois quarts, une garde de vingt Suisses, qu'on reconnaissait a leur uniforme pour etre des Suisses des petits cantons, c'est-a-dire des meilleurs amis du roi Henri III, alors regnant, deboucha de la rue de la Mortellerie et s'avanca vers la porte Saint-Antoine qui s'ouvrit devant eux et se referma derriere eux ; une fois hors de cette porte, ils allerent se ranger le long des haies qui, a l'exterieur de la barriere, bordaient les enclos epars de chaque cote de la route, et, par sa seule apparition, refoula bon nombre de paysans et de petits bourgeois venant de Montreuil, de Vincennes ou de Saint-Maur pour entrer en ville avant midi, entree qu'ils n'avaient pu operer, la porte se trouvant fermee, comme nous l'avons dit. S'il est vrai que la foule amene naturellement le desordre avec elle, on eut pu croire que, par l'envoi de cette garde, M. le prevot voulait prevenir le desordre qui pouvait avoir lieu a la porte Saint-Antoine. En effet, la foule etait grande ; il arrivait par les trois routes convergentes , et cela a chaqueinstant, des moines des couvents de la banlieue, des femmes assises de cote sur les bats de leurs anes, des paysans dans leurs charrettes, lesquelles venaient s'agglomerer a cette masse deja considerable, que la fermeture inaccoutumee des portes arretait a la barriere, et tous par leurs questions plus ou moins pressantes, formaient une espece de rumeur faisant basse continue, tandis que parfois quelques voix, sortant du diapason general, montaient jusqu'a l'octave de la menace ou de la plainte. On pouvait encore remarquer, outre cette masse d'arrivants qui voulaient entrer dans la ville, quelques groupes particuliers qui semblaient en etre sortis. Ceux-la, au lieu de plonger leurs regards dans Paris par les interstices des barrieres, ceux-la devoraient l'horizon, borne par le couvent des jacobins, le prieure de Vincennes et la Croix-Faubin, comme si, par quelqu'une de ces trois routes formant eventail, il devait leur arriver quelque Messie.
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- Bookseller
- Rooke Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 821A33
- Title
- The Forty-Five Guardsmen: An Historical Romance
- Author
- Alexandre Dumas
- Illustrator
- F. C. Tilney
- Format/Binding
- Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Indeed
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George Routledge & Sons
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- [1881]
- Size
- 7.5" by 5"
- Keywords
- alexandre dumas aramis edition illustrated leather bindings aramis edition
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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