STORIES OF ADVENTURE : I. MERIDIANA; THE ADVENTURES OF THREE ENGLISHMEN AND THREE RUSSIANS IN SOUTH AFRICA; 2. A JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH
New York: Scribner, Armstrong and Company, 1874 / 1875. Jules-Descartes Férat, Francois Pannemaker and Edouard Riou. Second State. Hardcover. Octavo. TWO VOLUMES IN ONE. Green cloth-covered boards with black embossed lettering and lovely and intricate gilt central medallion featuring a man beneath a parasol, reading a book on a tuft of reeds in a stream, flanked by six alligators, heads all out of the water. Moderate rubbing to extremities (edges and corners) and 5 1/16 in. loss of cloth from shelf-rubbing at very top and bottom of spine. Later printing of "A ;Journey" reprinted from the cheap edition. 232 and 305 pages. With 68 full-page black and white illustrations by noteworthy French illustrators of the day: Jules-Descartes Ferat, Francois Pannemaker, and Edouard Riou. Translated from the French. Bookplate to Front pastedown of Gillian Webster Barr Bailey ("Her Book"). Good. Item #87533
Lists three titles to verso of Contents page"The 8 page publisher's catalogue, lists Marian Harland's 'Common Sense In the Household", published in 1875. Both 'Meridiana' and 'A Journey...' are advertised as for sale in one volume, and 'A Journey..." is offered as 'Popular Edition at 75¢' and the 'Complete Edition at $3.00' " (Myers, 1989, p. 45.
Illustrators:
Édouard Riou (1833-1900)
François Pannemaker (1822 - 1900)
Jules-Descartes Férat (1829-1906).
Price: $175.00