"Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book"
— Stephan Mallarme
Cesar Cascabel.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1891. [Adventure novel] FIRST UK EDITION. Crown octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii, 313; [1], imprint; [2], list of works; [32], ads. With eighty wood-engraved illustrations by George Roux, including a frontispiece. In publisher's blue-green cloth with gilt titles and polychrome blocked illustrations to spine and upper board. All edges gilt; foliate endpapers. Contents clean, neat gift inscription to pastedown (Christmas 1891), covers are rather bright, rubbed to the spine and a little flecked to rear board. Very good indeed. A particularly elusive English Jules Verne title. A group of travelling French circus performers struggle to make their way home from California, attempting the overland route via Alaska and Siberia. First published in English in 1890. Item #60238
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