Le Tour Du Monde En Quatre-Vingts Jours. Dessins Par Mm. De Neuville Et L. Benett. Verne, Jules Fiction

(4), 217, (1) pp. + a two-page map on the last pages. With a total of 56 illustrations by Alphonse de Neuville and Léon Benett. Contemporary half-leather binding with marbled edges and sprarsely gilt spine with four raised bands. Spine and boards slightly rubbed and faded, corners bumped and rubbed. Hinges partly cracked, binding still quite firm.Endpapers and title-leaf with onwer's rubber stamp, interior with a couple of small stains, else well-kept. Early (second?) printing of "Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours" with Neuville's and Benett's illustrations, probably from the early to mid 1870s. The true first edition was published by Hetzel in 1872 and didn't contain the illustrations, which were first published in the 1873 edition. With the printers code 1757-73 on the last page. Variant with printer's imprint on title leaf verso measuring 82 mm.