The Three Musketeers by Dumas, Alexandre

London: George Routledge and Sons, Limited. Hardcover. Good. Leloir, Maurice. 12mo. Fleur-de-Lis Edition. [n.d., ca. 1900]. ix, 492 p.p. Blue cloth boards with blind titling and vignette to front board, black lettering to spine. [12 B&W plates, incl. frontis.]. Spine is sunned, bumped and rubbed at ends and corners, light wear to joints, damp staining to boards. Offsetting to endpapers, pages are age toned. Light creasing to some pages at head, short tear to foot of p. v. The Three Musketeers is a historical adventure novel written in 1844 by French author Alexandre Dumas. Situated between 1625 and 1628, it recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to travel to Paris, to join the Musketeers of the Guard. Although d'Artagnan is not able to join this elite corps immediately, he befriends the three most formidable musketeers of the age - Athos, Porthos and Aramis, "the three inseparables," as these are called - and gets involved in affairs of the state and court.