War and Peace. London: JM Dent, [1939]. Bound in quarter leather over marbled boards. Raised bands with gilt title label & devices to spine. A fine bright copy.

Three volumes bound as one, each paginated separately. Twelve page introduction by Vicomte De Vogue.

This 1939 volume was the first time War and Peace had been issued as part of “Dent’s Treble Volumes” series, though the text itself was originally published in Everyman’s Library in 1911.

The publication of the first English edition of War and Peace in 1886 was a landmark literary event. Although the translation was indirect—traveling from Russian to French and then into English—it successfully introduced English-speaking readers to one of the greatest novels of the 19th century