1curiousbooks
I don’t know if anyone here knows about these two publishers. I purchased “the three musketeers” 1894 2 volumes edition by Appleton and co. It’s oversized and beautiful with a lot of illustrations by Maurice Leloir. Now, I see that the same looking 2 volumes were also published by Routledge. So, my question is what is the difference, if any. And, which one is better Appleton or Routledge? Appreciate if anyone knows about it and can answer my question.
4treereader
A quick search of “appleton” in that forum yields no results, so either they don’t consider it to be fine press, or has never come up before.
5jroger1
>1 curiousbooks:
There is a fairly detailed Wikipedia article titled “D. Appleton and Company.” Easton published in 2012 a beautiful oversized 2-volume DLE called “Picturesque America,” a reproduction of a set originally published by Appleton in 1872. But the DLEs of works by Dumas and Hugo have been reproductions of Routledge editions.
The “Three Musketeers” in question was published both by Appleton and Routledge in 1894, so is it possible that one was American and the other British but that they are otherwise identical? Just speculation on my part.
As an aside, if I can’t define “fine press” today, which I can’t, I sure can’t define it for the 19th century! :)
6HugoDumas
>1 curiousbooks: I have owned and read the Appleton version as well as the Routledge version (via the EP DLE). I found them nearly identical in layout, oversized with large margins, and including 250 illustrations of Maurice LeLoir. The difference appears to be in English translation. The Appleton edition is translated by William Robson and the Routledge edition is translated by Joseph L. Blamire. You will also find cheaper and smaller editions of the Routledge Three Musketeers as you can with the other Victorian printings of the core works of Hugo, Dumas and Sue (5 have been reproduced in EP DLEs) . I reviewed them too and found the printing layout identical but with much smaller margins and less expensive paper stock.
7curiousbooks
>6 HugoDumas: thank you for sharing this info and thank you all. I purchased oversized Routledge 2 vol as well. Now, if I can only find an oversized Twenty years after” a sequel to two musketeers
8HugoDumas
>7 curiousbooks: limited editions club has the nicest edition of Twenty Years After though I have not personally inspected the editions from Heritage Club and Folio Society. They are all available on eBay and reasonably priced. The EP edition is severely overpriced as part of a 3 volume set.
More problematic is finding a complete third volume of the D’Artagnan Romances, since most publishers chose to print a small portion of that massive story from Ten Years Later called The Man in the Iron Mask.
Here is the complete collection:
The D'Artagnan Romances:
* The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires, 1844)
* Twenty Years After (Vingt ans après, 1845)
* The Vicomte de Bragelonne, sometimes called "Ten Years Later", (Le Vicomte de Bragelonne, ou Dix ans plus tard, 1847): When published in English, it was usually split into three parts:
* The Vicomte de Bragelonne,
* Louise de la Valliere,
* Man in the Iron Mask
Also recommended from the Limited Editions Club by Dumas are:
- Marguerite de La Valliere
- The Queen’s Necklace
More problematic is finding a complete third volume of the D’Artagnan Romances, since most publishers chose to print a small portion of that massive story from Ten Years Later called The Man in the Iron Mask.
Here is the complete collection:
The D'Artagnan Romances:
* The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires, 1844)
* Twenty Years After (Vingt ans après, 1845)
* The Vicomte de Bragelonne, sometimes called "Ten Years Later", (Le Vicomte de Bragelonne, ou Dix ans plus tard, 1847): When published in English, it was usually split into three parts:
* The Vicomte de Bragelonne,
* Louise de la Valliere,
* Man in the Iron Mask
Also recommended from the Limited Editions Club by Dumas are:
- Marguerite de La Valliere
- The Queen’s Necklace
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