Complete and unabridged, with 89 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, Willem Cornelisz Duyster and Adam Frans van der Meulen. It is 1660. Louis XIV is twenty-two and still under Mazarin's thumb, Charles II is a penniless exile, and d'Artagnan, tired of waiting for a promotion that never comes, borrows from his old lackey Planchet and crosses to England to carry off General Monk in a box. Athos goes on his own errand for the same king, Mazarin dies fretting over his fortune, Colbert and Fouquet begin their duel over the treasury, and Aramis and Porthos are quietly fortifying Belle-Isle. The musketeers are middle-aged now, and for the first time they are not all on the same side. Paintings of palace gardens, fortress dungeons and royal courts; the Gilded Library ornament is baldric, fleur-de-lis and a sealed letter.