Count of Monte Cristo (French)

5b Alexander Dumas. Paris: Bureaux du Journal Le Siècle. 28 September 1845 – 1 February 1846. Rare large bound edition of original feuilleton. Description Second feuilleton edition of The Count of Monte Cristo (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) published in serialized form in the Parisian newspaper Le Siècle, and one of the very first editions of Le Comte de Monte-Cristo. Serialised as the first volume of the Oeuvres complètes d’Alexandre Dumas in the supplement to Le Siècle, this edition was published partway through the serialisation of Le Comte de Monte-Cristo in the newspaper Le Journal des Débats, the novel’s true first edition, which ran from 28 August 1844 to 15 January 1846. Le Siècle began a second serialisation on 28 September 1845, issuing one part per week for 18 weeks, before concluding the novel on 1 February 1846, just two weeks after Le Journal des Débats finished its run, with a single, large instalment that included the novel’s final two-thirds. The volume is complete with it