Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle 1873.
SCARCE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, preceding the first U. S. edition, and perhaps even rarer than the famous jellyfish vignette binding. The first edition in English was actually published in November 1872 (but dated 1873 to the title page and the publisher’s catalogue dated 1872) preceding the more usual American first edition by James Osgood in Boston in 1873, using the English edition illustrations.
A beautiful clean book in the preferred scarce blue cloth. Gilt titles to the front and spine. The spine is slightly darkened with fading/rubbing to the gilt. The book has sharp corners and no edgewear. The book has benefited from having the spine professionally rebacked with the original cloth laid back down as such the book has a tight and square binding making the book quite readable unlike most copies of this title which have poor/cracked bindings and loose pages. The book has the original salmon coated end papers in clean condition with but a delicate scripted owner name to the front fly leaf. The internal pages are overall remarkably clean and fresh with some occasional scattered handling marks or very light foxing, but NONE of the usual staining and NONE of the usual heavy foxing.
Has a spectacular presentation. Please see many detailed images. ****Please note a similar condition copy in blue cloth recently sold at auction for $27,500.00 and that copy had a cracked binding in several locations along with other concerns including soiling, bookplates etc****.
Beautiful rare, important Verne book in collectible Clean condition with the scarce original end papers. Perfect for a Verne collector, presenting well on the shelf with a nice crisp readable binding, and without the excessive wear, and broken bindings as is typically found with Verne books.
