1878 Around The World In Eighty Days - Early American Edition

1878 Around the World in Eighty Days - Early American Edition
Porter & Coates Philadelphia. original terra-cotta cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt. Later impression of the first American edition. Bookplate inside front cover. General overall wear. Good to Very Good.

Osgood was the first American firm to publish this Verne title in both a small unillustrated format in July 1873 and a fully illustrated version (from British sheets) in November of the same year. In March of 1876 Osgood sold at auction the plates and remainders of its Verne books and Porter & Coates paid $410 for the plates of the illustrated version, along with 310 sets of sheets at cost, and printed an edition from those plates in December of 1876; though not mentioned in Taves & Michaluk, it is probable Porter & Coates ran off one or more printings between then and 1880. We have dated this copy circa 1878, based on the rear-panel ad for the Fireside Encyclopedia, which was issued near the end of that year.

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