Méline & Cans & Cie

Belgian pirate edition published the same year as the first separate edition which was banned for Belgium and abroad.
Publisher's binding in full blue cloth, smooth spine, blind-ruled frame on the covers.
Some minor foxing without consequence.

New edition.
Bradel binding in half purple cloth, smooth spine decorated with gilt floral motif, date at foot, hazel shagreen title-label, original wrappers preserved.
Small marginal foxing, otherwise a handsome and rare copy.

DUMAS Alexandre
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo
[The Count of Monte Cristo]
Société belge de librairie & Meline, Cans & Cie, Bruxelles 1845-1846, 10 x 15,5 cm, 8 volumes bound in 4, contemporary half sheep
Very rare Belgian counterfeit edition published the same year as the first edition.
Brown half sheep bindings, spines slightly discolored and decorated with gilt romantic arabesques, marbled paper boards, contemporary bindings.
Small chafed patches on the upper cover of the last board, some rare spotting, a slight lack to the margin of page 73 in the seventh volume, not touching the text.
Very rare.
$ 5 500