The Survivors of the Chancellor : Diary of J. R. Kazallon, Passenger by Verne, Jules ; Frewer, Ellen (translator) - 1876

Boston: James R. Osgood & Company, 1876. First American Illustrated Edition. Cloth. Very Good. First American Illustrated Edition. vii, 358 pages. Original green cloth with beveled boards and green and black decorations. Rebacked, with original soiled spine panel laid down, and rear flyleaf replaced. Edgewear and minor chipping to front flyleaf and following blank (which also has a previous owner name stamped on it). Second illustrated title page present and in nice shape. Highly illustrated, complete with all illustrations as called for. 43 illustrations in the Survivors of the Chancellor, and 12 illustrations in the second part, Martin Paz. Total of 55 illustrations plus the extra illustrated title page. A sound copy of a scarce title. Cloth. The first Illustrated American edition. For a rather complex publishing history, see Taves & Michaluk 104 (p 151) Shortly after publication of this work, Osgood "sold at auction in New York City plates and remainders of many Verne books ... which were both bought by Albert Mason. Mason apparently sold them to Porter and Coates, who published an edition in December 1876 with a dozen illustrations, and different cover decorations. Scarce in the marketplace. See also Myers 47 (p 55) who notes these were apparently bound from the English sheets with the American title page added.