1915 Nice Illustrated Book - The Wonderful Travels by JULES VERNE

 

Author : Jules Verne
Title :  The Wonderful Travels Containing - Around the World in Eighty Days, Five Weeks in a Balloon, A Journey to the Interior of the Earth. Illustrated by Henry Austin.
Publisher : London, Ward, Lock & Co Ltd., No date, circa 1915.
Language : Text in English
Size : 8 " X 6 "
Pages : 192-265-267 pages
Binding : Good illustrated full cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content : Good content (bright and tight, usual foxing throughout - as shown, name of a previous owner on back of first endpaper).  
Illustrations : Complete with 3 B&W plates by Henry Austin. With decorative letter-pieces.

The book : Nice edition of three of Jules Verne’s great adventure stories in one volume.

The author: Jules Gabriel Verne (8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.Verne was born to bourgeois parents in the seaport of Nantes, where he was trained to follow in his father's footsteps as a lawyer, but quit the profession early in life to write for magazines and the stage. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).