DUMAS (Alexandre). Le Comte de Monte-Cristo. Paris: Au bureau de l'Écho des feuilletons, 1846. - 2 volumes large in-8, 255 x 165: portrait, (2 ff.), 478 pp., (1 f.), 14 plates; frontispiece, (2 ff.), 499 pp. 14 plates. Taupe half-percaline, smooth spine decorated, speckled edges (period binding). First illustrated edition of one of the great classics of French literature. It features 30 steel-engraved plates, including a portrait of the author after Eugène Giraud, 10 after Tony Johannot and 19 after Gavarni. There are also 146 woodcuts, including 119 lettrines and 27 culs-de-lampe, some repeated several times. Enriched with a color postcard depicting the Château d'If. Used rubbing to boards, hinges and headpieces. Some light foxing and spotting. Also included: - DUMAS (Alexandre). Le Comte de Monte-Christo. Paris: Lécrivain et Toubon, 1860. - 6 parts in 3 volumes, large in-8, 279 x 188 : (2 ff.), 158 pp., (1 f.), 162 pp., (1 f.) ; (2 ff.), 158 pp., (1 f.), 157 pp., (1 f.) ; (2 ff.), 150 pp., (1 f.), 149 pp., (1 f.). Eggplant half calf, smooth spine decorated (modern binding). Popular edition printed on two columns, illustrated with numerous woodcuts in the text, mostly after compositions by Jean-Adolphe Beaucé and Gustave Staal. A good copy in modern binding. Tear to a few leaves, reaching the text on pages 127-128 of the second part.