Vingt mille lieues sous les mers

Hetzel | Paris 1905-1910 | 18.5 x 28 cm | publisher's cloth


Later edition, with 111 drawings by de Neuville and Riou, engraved by Hildibrand. 4 chromolithographed plates, the others black and white. 2 of the four have only traces of color. The copies that have all 6 plates fully in color are later.
Publisher's binding with "one elephant, title in fan" signed Engel at foot of plate, lighthouse to spine, lower cover Jauzac type 'i'. Superb covers. Spine very good, head and foot sagging. Altogether very fresh; a few pale spots to margins. Light cracks to inside joints, without damaging the working of the binding, the book being solid and intact. Small marginal tear of 1 cm to p. 410.
A fine copy, in rare condition.
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea is an adventure book conceived on the basis of a suggestion in a letter from George Sand, a friend of Hetzel's, who had very much liked Five Weeks in a Balloon and Voyage to the Center of the Earth.