Jules Verne’s "Round the Moon. A Sequel to From the Earth to the Moon" 1881.

VERNE, Jules. Round the Moon. A Sequel to From the Earth to the Moon. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1881.

Early English edition. Publisher’s Author’s Illustrated Edition. Small octavo (8vo), 192 pp. Upper-cover title reads Around the Moon; title page reads Round the Moon. Translated from the French by Louis Mercier and Eleanor E. King. Original blue cloth, elaborately blocked in blind and gilt to the boards and spine; all edges gilt. Illustrated with full-page wood engravings after drawings by Émile Bayard and Alphonse de Neuville.

An early English edition of Verne’s sequel to From the Earth to the Moon, continuing the lunar voyage of Barbicane, Nicholl, and Michel Ardan as their projectile passes around the Moon and returns to Earth. One of the foundational nineteenth-century works of lunar science fiction.

Contents clean overall, with light scattered foxing; decorative prize bookplate dated 1883 to the front pastedown. Binding remains sound and square. Publisher’s cloth with light shelf wear and minor bumping to the corners; gilt remains bright. A Very Good copy.

[Attributes: Hard Cover; Illustrated.]