2 Alexandre Dumas first editions are documented on this shelf, from The Count of Monte Cristo (1846) to The Three Musketeers (1846) across 2 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Alexandre Dumas title from later printings and book-club copies — the publisher and year to expect, the number-line or edition-statement conventions, and the tells that show up in online listings.

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The Count of Monte Cristo — 1846 · Chapman and HallThe first complete English-language edition in book form was published by Chapman and Hall, London, in two volumes, complete by May 1846; it had first appeared in ten weekly illustrated parts beginning in March 1846. The translation follows the revised 1846 French text, using the 'Cristo' rather than 'Christo' spelling and including the extra chapter 'The House on the Allees de Meilhan.' The two-volume octavo set…. A rival Belfast edition from Simms and McIntyre, in their 'Parlour Novelist' series, began issuing volume one - titled Chateau d'If, translated by Emma Hardy - in April 1846, making it the first appearance in English of any part of the novel; however, that three-volume Belfast set was not completed until October 1846, after Chapman and Hall's complete two-volume London edition (finished by May 1846), so Chapman…. Twentieth-century reprint-house editions (Everyman's Library, Collins Classics, etc.) use later, differently structured and more heavily abridged translations unconnected to either 1846 first printing.
The Three Musketeers — 1846 · Bruce and Wyld, "Library of Foreign Romance"Rival English translations of Dumas's serial proliferated within months of its 1844 French publication. Two abridged and bowdlerized American translations came first in 1846: one issued in Baltimore by Taylor & Wilde and one in New York and Baltimore by William Taylor and Company as 'The Three Guardsmen,' translated by Park Benjamin. Vickers of London then serialized a further abridged version in penny parts from…. Strict chronological priority for any appearance in English belongs to the two 1846 American translations, followed by the abridged Vickers London serialization; Bruce and Wyld's Barrow translation, though fourth in that sequence and frequently mismarketed by dealers as the first English edition, is the version generally collected as the first complete and unabridged English text, since the earlier printings were…. Countless later reprints, including William Robson's 1853 translation for Routledge's 'Railway Library,' are unconnected single-volume editions with no relation to the original 1846 serial parts.

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