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Verne, Jules.
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, from the French of Jules Verne, Autor of "Five Weeks in a Balloon", "From the Earth to the Moon", etc.
Publisher: Griffith and Farran, London;
Date of Publication: 1876
Stock Code: 14657
Third Griffith and Farran edition, after the first English translation of 1871, from the same publisher. Duodecimo, pp., viii, 384, 8 of publisher’s advertisements, plus tissue-guarded frontispiece, title-page vignette and 49 wood-engraved plates by Édouard Riou, illustrator of the French first edition. Publisher’s original emerald-green cloth by Burn & Co., titled in gilt and black-stamped to spine; pictorial gilt and black-stamped design to upper board; publisher’s device in blind to lower board. Ownership inscription in blue ink to front free end-paper. Spine slightly cocked, top edge dusty, hinges cracked but holding well, corners bumped and rubbed, shelf-wear to spine-tips. Slight even toning to contents but otherwise clean and neat. A very good copy. A scarce early English edition of Verne’s classic Lost World novel. Published originally in French in 1867, the first English translation of A Journey to the Centre of the Earth was published by Griffith and Farran in 1871. Two rival English translations from Ward, Lock & Co., and George Routledge and Sons in 1876. This third Griffith and Farran edition retains the wood-engraved illustrations found in the first French editions, that came about as part of the long-standing collaboration between Verne and Riou, who would go on to illustrate The Children of Captain Grant (1868), Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1871), and The Survivors of the Chancellor (1875). £650.00