BOOKS - The Romances of Dumas (1893)

Another very close to incredible find in the Book Hoard!  3 volumes from 1893.   

The Romances of Dumas:  Memoirs of a Physician

Alexandre Dumas

1893, three volumes.

Half-leather bound, three volume set.  

A historical novel by the author of The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, and The Man in the Iron Mask.  This novel chronicles the life of the mysterious alchemist & conspirator Joseph Balsamo in 18th-century France.  The story is set against the backdrop of the court of Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette, and explores political intrigue, romance, and the occult leading up to the French Revolution.

A small bit of leather loss at top of spine on both V1 and V3.  Otherwise, a Very Good set.  

This is a bargain price on this set.  This is the earliest set and has three volumes.  There is a later set of the same three and then an even later set with 5.  Ten years later (1903) there is a 32 volume set of all of Dumas's works to that point with an almost identical 3/4 leather binding (The Louvre Set).