Clovis Dardentor. Les Voyages Extraordinaires, Couronnes par l'Académie Française.

VERNE, Jules [Gabriel] (1828-1905), [BENETT, Léon, illustrator].

Paris: Bibliothèque d'Éducation et de Récréation J. Hetzel et Cie., no date [1896]. [French Literature] FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Quarto (28 x 19cm), pp.[4] 244 [8]. With 45 engravings after Benett, including six chromotypographic plates and a frontispiece. All text in French. Facsimile dedication to half-title. Publisher's red cloth with black decoration to lower board, and highly elaborate decoration in colour and gilt to upper. All edges gilt; grey/green endpapers. Black ink gift inscription to fly-leaf dated January 1897. Gently toned throughout, as usual. Light rubbing to cloth, with some fraying to corners, and head / tail of spine, as well as a 2cm split to tail of upper hinge. Especially light wear to decorative cover; a lovely bright copy. Very good. While on a journey from France to Algeria a pair of cousins attempt to save the life of a wealthy man with no legal heirs, so that they might be legally adopted. Also issued in a double-volume with 'Face au Drapeau' in the same year. Item #58618

Price: £450.00