The Works of Jules Verne.

VERNE, Jules.

Item Number: 68078

New York : Vincent Parke and Company, 1911.

Complete Set of the Works of Jules Verne. Limited edition, number 1 of 600 of the editions d’amiens, signed by “R.G. Lancaster,” Registrar, on the limitation. Octavo, 15 volumes. Bound in contemporary full red morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, top edge gilt, inner dentelles, doublures and watered silk endpapers. Hand-colored frontispieces, numerous tinted plates, limitation page bound in front of vol. 1 with hand-colored flower motif. In very good condition with some light restoration to the extremities.

Jules Verne is considered by many to be the father of science fiction, with a prodigious oeuvre of novels and short fiction. This edition of his works includes Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Mysterious Island, and Around the World in Eighty Days. Also includes the first edition in English of Verne's later novel, The Master of the World, preceding the first separate English and American editions of 1914. Edited and with introductions by American scholar Charles F. Horne. Many of the works appear under title variants as found in Taves & Michaluk (95-102).