Description
Beautiful quarto edition in two volumes illustrated by Julien Le Blanc with 158 engravings in the text engraved by Léveillé and 10 etchings outside the text engraved by Géry-Richard.
Current edition after 110 numbered copies.
First published in 6 volumes by Cadot in 1845, the same year as the Three Musketeers, The Knight of the House rouge is Alexandre Dumas's first novel dedicated to the French Revolution. It was also the first cloak-and-dagger serial on French television. In 2015, Philippe Bayard published a short text on the novel's heroine with Minuit, Did I save Geneviève Dixmer? ? which begins as follows: "My whole life would probably have been different if I hadn't fallen in love with Geneviève Dixmer when I was a teenager".
A fine copy, with the two imposing volumes produced at the time by David in two elegant Japanese bindings.s.
Bound in contemporary Bradel style by David. Full embossed polychrome leather paper with animals, flowers, characters and ideograms, smooth spines, black title-pieces, gilt title, gilt head. Covers and spine preserved. Joints restored.
