Dr Ox's Experiment, And Other Stories. Translated From The French With Numerous Illustrations. Verne, Jules.

First British edition, containing the title story, "Master Zacharius", "A Drama in the Air", "A Winter Amid the Ice", and one story written by the author's brother Paul Verne, titled "The Fortieth French Ascent of Mont Blonc". This story collection also appeared in Paris and America the same year. Binding variants in red and green cloth have been noted, without priority. Octavo. Original blue cloth over bevelled boards, spine and front cover lettered and pictorially blocked in gilt and black, blind rules and publisher's device on rear cover, coated endpapers, edges gilt, binder's ticket of Burn & Co. on rear pastedown. Wood-engraved frontispiece with tissue guard, 46 wood-engraved plates, further engravings in the text, by Barbant, Pannemaker, and Hildibrand, after Lorenz Froelich, Théophile Schuler, Edmond Yon, Adrien Marie, Emile Bayard, and Bertrand. Publishers 40-page catalogue, dated August 1874, at end. Bookseller's blind stamp on front free endpaper; clipped review of the title story from the Times Literary Supplement, hand-dated 12 December 2003, loosely inserted. Spine slightly faded, covers bright, rubbing to extremities, with nick to spine head, foxing to edges and outer leaves, damp stain to rear free endpaper, contents clean. A very good copy.