249 - DUMAS, Alexandre. LELOIR, Maurice.

DUMAS, Alexandre. LELOIR, Maurice. The Three Musketeers. Paris, Calmann Lévy, 1894. 2 volumes, in-4 (30 x 21 cm), XX-479 pp. and (2) ff., 469 pp. (1) ff. Contemporary navy blue morocco, ribbed spine edged with cold-stamped fillets extending onto the covers, author, title, and volume number gilt, a medallion adorned with three gilt crossed swords surrounding a red mosaic cross, insides of the covers lined with peacock-blue morocco adorned with gold swords at the corners; the front inside cover features the insignia of the Musketeers, consisting of three crossed swords around a cross, a shoulder strap, and a belt, the whole executed in multi-toned morocco and enhanced with gold fillets, red silk lining on the endpapers, gilt edges, cover and spine preserved, in a marbled slipcase [Ch. Meunier, [18]99] (minor scuffs on the slipcases). Description: A deluxe edition illustrated with numerous woodcuts by J. Huyot after Maurice Leloir. Bound in magnificent mosaic morocco leather. Limited edition of 251 copies. This copy, no. 54, is one of 200 printed on Chinese paper, accompanied by separate prints of each of the engravings. Enriched with the *Catalog of Two Hundred and Fifty Original Drawings by Maurice Leloir...*, comprising 47 pp. with its original green cover, a prospectus, as well as the catalog of the auction of Maurice Leloir’s original drawings for this work, which took place at the Galerie Georges Petit.