Le tour du monde en quatre-vingt jours

Edition from the same year as the first edition, of remarkable rarity, bearing a fictitious statement of fifteenth edition, yet featuring correct colophon (1872) at the foot of p. 312: "1124-72". 

Binding in brown half sheepskin, spine with four raised bands ruled in black and decorated with double black compartments bearing central gilt fleurons, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges, contemporary binding.

A few minor foxing spots of no consequence.

A fine copy attractivelyhoused in a contemporary binding, published the same year as the first edition.

The first edition was published on 30 January 1873. Our copy shares all its characteristics, with the exception of the edition statement on the title page and the half-title leaf, with a list of announcements whose verso carries 

"EN PREPARATION :

Le Pays des fourrures, 2e partie, I vol, in-18

Le Pays des fourrures, in-8 illustré.

Le Tour du monde en 80 jours, in-8 illustré."

The second part of Le Pays des fourrures was printed on 27 October 1873, the first part on 19 June.

Our copy is in all likelihood a first edition reissued under a new title page and half-title. It was therefore put on sale between those two dates, prior to the publication of the first illustrated edition of Le Tour du monde en 80 jours.