"Adventures of Baron Munchausen", illustrated by Gustave Dore Published by Illustrated Editions Company, New York, undated (early 1930s).

The Illustrated Editions series consisted of illustrated classics published in New York by Joseph Meyers and his sister Edna Williams (1929-1942). They also owned Three Sirens Press.

Hard boards, quarter-bound, black and gold with red cloth. The edges of the cover are beveled, 6.1/2" x 9.1/2"; salmon color endpapers, 206 pages on heavy stock brownish colored paper, the bottom edge is untrimmed with a few pages slightly longer; very good condition.

Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvelous Travels and Campaigns in Russia is a 1785 novel about a fictional German nobleman written by the German writer Rudolf Erich Raspe. The lead character Baron Munchausen is loosely based on a real baron, Hieronymus Karl Friedrich, Freiherr von Munchhausen.

Munchhausen, however, was launched as a 'type' of tall-story teller by Rudolf Erich Raspe, who used the earlier stories as basic material for a small volume published (anonymously) in London in 1785 under the title "Baron Munchausen's Narrative of His Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia". Later and much enlarged editions, none of them having much to do with the historical Baron Munchhausen, became widely known and popular in many languages. They are generally known in English as The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.

Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Dore [1832-1883] was a French artist, printmaker, illustrator, caricaturist, and sculptor who worked primarily with wood-engraving.

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