Verne, Jules

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Verne, Jules
Around the World in Eighty Days... Translated by Geo. M. Towle. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1874 [1873]
Paper

8vo (186 x 134mm.), FIRST BRITISH EDITION (dated "1874" on title-page with 48pp. publisher's adverts dated "October 1873" at end), frontispiece and numerous illustrations, original pictorial green cloth in black and gilt, edges gilt, spine cocked, upper interior hinge slightly split, discreet bookseller's blind stamp on front free endpaper, contemporary ownership inscription dated "Easter 1875", some light soiling

Catalogue Note

FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF VERNE'S MOST SUCCESSFUL WORK OF FICTION, published in Britain in November 1873, but with many copies forward dated to the following year. The first edition in English of Phileas Fogg's adventure was published by Osgood of Boston in a small pocket-sized volume with only one illustration in July 1873, followed by this edition, published for the British market in several different cloth variants: red, blue, green and purple.

Writing on the book, Verne said: "I must be a bit crazy: I fall for all the extravagant things my heroes get up to. There's only one thing I regret: not to be able to get up to those things with them" (Jules Verne, Jean Jules-Verne, 1976, p.106).