Deux ans de vacances

First octavo edition illustrated with 92 engravings by Benett, including one folding map in colour: this marks the very first use of polychromy in an illustration for a Jules Verne novel.
Publisher’s Hetzel binding “with the two elephants” in full red cloth, signed by Lenègre, type 3, upper cover signed by Souze, lower cover Lenègre type “e” as described by Jauzac, original blue endpapers, all edges gilt, publisher’s EL catalogue at the end of the volume.
Spine slightly faded as usual, small black marks along the hinges, head- and tailcaps softened as often, a pleasant copy virtually free of foxing.
“Deux ans de vacances” is a Robinsonade featuring fourteen schoolboys from New Zealand.