DUMAS, Alexandre. The Page of the Duke of Savoy. An historical romance. George Routledge & Sons. [1871] [1868]
Initial ad. leaf bound upside down, half title. BOUND WITH: The Forty-Five Guardsmen. An historical romance. 2 works in 1 vol. in contemp. half calf, spine gilt in compartments, red & green leather labels; sl. rubbed v.g.
¶Le Page du Duc de Savoie, was first published in Turin in 1853-54, under the title Emanuel Philibert; the first edition in France, 1855. First English edition, 1861 (C.H. Clarke). An earlier incomplete translation, under the title Emmanuel Philibert, presumably translated from the Turin edition, appeared in New York in 1854. It is a sequel to The Two Dianas. Topp, vol. I, p.212, giving the date 1871? Les Quarante-Cinq, 1847. First English edition, 1848 (Appleyard). First Routledge edition of this work, 1868. Third part of the 'Valois Romances' trilogy, after La Reine Margot and La Dame de Monsoreau. Topp, vol. I, p.194.
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