Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas

Jules Verne

Edité par Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle, London, 1873

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First British edition. Sampson Low published this first edition in English November 1872 (though dated 1873). James Osgood published the first American edition from these same Sampson Low plates, and this was soon followed by the George Smith edition. This scarce copy in royal blue cloth, pictorially decorated in black and gilt, rear cover ruled, and with publisher's device in blind, all edges gilt, beveled. With all 112 illustrations, including tissue guarded frontispiece. Eight pages of ads dated "1872-3" at rear. Taves & Michaluk V006; Myers 56. Now housed in a beautiful navy blue clamshell, lined with marble paper and titled in gilt on the spine; 1" tear to clamshell near crown. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle (1873), 303 pages. Good+ copy. Darkened spine, rubbed and rather worn spine ends and corners with about 3/16" of cloth chipped missing at crown. Hinges cracked but holding with small book owner label on front pastedown and erased inscription dated March 1873 on f.f.e. Burn and Co. bindery ticket on rear pastedown. N° de réf. du vendeur 194005

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas

Éditeur : Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle, London

Date d'édition : 1873

Reliure : Hardcover

Etat : Good

Edition : 1st Edition