1880 Scarce Early Edition - Jules Verne - Around the World in Eighty Days

 

Author : Jules Verne
Title :  Around the World in Eighty Days
Publisher : London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1880. Author's illustrated Edition (stated).
Language : Text in English
Size : 7.5 " X 5 "
Pages : 192-32(catalogue) pages 
Binding : Attractive and very good original illustrated full cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content : Very good content (bright and tight, rare foxing, 1880 London school board prize bookplate on first endpaper, endpaper hinges weak but still tight- as shown)  
Illustrations : Complete with all the 7 full page illustrations.

Estimate : (USD 250 - USD 400)

 The book : Scarce and attractive early edition of Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is an adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works.

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).