Jules Verne — A Floating City, and the Blockade Runners

London, Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1875 . Cloth. The second English language edition of these two thrilling tales from Jules Verne. Illustrated throughout, and in the publisher's decorative pictorial cloth. The second English language edition of this work, published the year after the first English edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and forty-one plates. Collated, complete.The first of the two tales present in this volume is 'A Floating City', telling the tale of a woman onboard the SS Great Eastern alongside her abusive husband, who finds out that the man she loves is also on board.The second tale is 'The Blockade Runners', set during the American Civil War and following the exploits of a British merchant who must break the Union blockade of Charleston harbour in South Carolina.With a forty page publisher's catalogue to the rear, dated October 1874.An early edition of this work from the French novelist of best-selling adventure novels, best known for 'Journey to the Center of the Earth', 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas', and 'Around the World in Eighty Days&apos. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding, with gilt detailing. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with back strip fading. Boards bright. Hinges strained and somewhat tender. Lacking front free endpaper. Internally, binding a touch strained, with one plate detached and loosely inserted. Pages bright. Spotting to perimeters of first few leaves, with further handling marks and light spotting throughout. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .