Deux ans de vacances

First edition in octavo illustrated with 92 illustrations by Benett including one colored folding map: this is the first appearance of polychromy in an illustration for a Jules Verne novel.
Publisher's Hetzel binding "aux deux éléphants" in full red cloth signed Lenègre type 3, front cover signed Souze, back cover Lenègre type "e" as indicated by Jauzac, lighthouse spine, original blue endpapers, all edges gilt. EL catalog at rear.
The joints and headcaps of our copy have been retouched. One corner and one joint at foot slightly bumped.
Deux ans de vacances is a robinsonnade featuring fourteen schoolboys from New Zealand.