Bourses de voyage

VERNE Jules
Bourses de voyage
[Travel Scholarships]
Hetzel, Paris 1903, 18 x 27,5 cm, publisher’s binding
First edition, only a small number of copies were printed according to Jauzac. 74 illustrations by Banett, among which 13 photographs (Barbados, Saint Lucie) and 12 polychromes plates and a map of the West Indies.
Publisher's binding au globe doré in type 3, that is the most successful type for this binding, with the upper plate by Blancheland, binding by Engel. Second cover type h, with the letters intertwined on a black background.
A beautiful first plate in gleaming gold with discreet stains on the cartouche, and in the sky. Some minor discoloration on the external border. A corner is a bit rubbed. The spine is sunned, the gold is still present. The spine head is very slightly rubbed. The vignette with the lighthouse is slightly soiled. The second cover is good, with some dirt. Pale scattered foxing. A beautiful copy overall.
The West Indies school, a well-known English college, only welcomes young people who are of West Indian origins. Nine residents are attributed a scholarship for a trip. They will undertake an eventful sea crossing to the archipelago of the West Indies, the captain and the team being in fact crooks.
$ 950