Société belge de librairie

Second edition.
Bradel binding in half almond cloth, smooth spine browned decorated with gilt floral motif and double gilt fillet at foot, original wrappers with corner lacks preserved, corners slightly bumped.
Occasional foxing.

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