On this page are listed various "Sets" of Jules Verne titles. None of the sets contain ALL Jules Vernes novels, but some come close.
Hutchinson Series - Hutchinson & Co.
Edited by Charles F. Horne, Ph. D.
"... Yet, in no spirit of unfairness, we must admit that Jules Verne's claim upon the Academy rather decreased with added years. Most of his later books by no means equal his earlier ones. A man over seventy may well be pardoned if he no longer writes with the fresh fancy and confident vigor of thirty-five. To present all Verne's later work to American readers would be fair neither to the fame of the author nor to the pocket of the public. Therefore a labor of selection has been necessary. All the works that have made Jules Verne beloved, all that present his imaginary inventions, his prophecies of the future, every work that honest critics have though worth preserving, is included in this edition. It presents not only those books crowned by the French Academy, but all those crowned by the verdict of that final judge, that best of judges when long years run full, that judge to whom all our work must be submitted in the end, the general public.
To them this work is dedicated.
Many (All?) of these double volumes have a catalogue in the back, dated August 1875, and the title pages are dated 1876!
Some of the volumes dated 1887, the others are not dated.
This is a series of hard cover books. They measure a small 5 1/4 x 7 1/2 x 1/2 inches, and have yellow and red flowers on the cover (ed: I like to call it the Pansy series! though I know they are not pansys!). Some of the books have the publishers catalog printed on the end papers.
The only illustration is the Frontice, OR an image on the title page.
Crown 8vo., picture wrapper, 1s. each; cloth gilt, 1s 6d.; ditto, gilt edges, 2s.
Healthy literature for boys is here provided in a cheap and popular form.
Crown 8vo, picture boards, 2s. each; cloth gilt, 2s6d.; cloth extra, gilt, 3s6d.
The date of 1878 is given above, because the company moved to the Salisbury address in late 1878.
Yellowback - Ward, Lock & Co.
This series does not seem to have a name, but the covers are very similar, so I have grouped them together as a Series.
They were published over approximately 10 years, from 1885 to 1895 by Ward, Lock & Co and Ward, Lock & Bowden.
The cover design, is very Victorian looking, with the title of the book in a decorative font, in gilt, with an image from the book in vignette form. Finally, most say "by Jules Verne", near the edge of the vignette.
This is a series of hard cover books. They measure 5 1/2 x 7 3/4 x 7/8 inches. Their most distinguishing feature, is the cover art. The cover illustration is rather primitive, showing a hot air balloon, 2 ships, and a large 'SEA SERPENT'.
The serpent is repeated on the spine. Each book has 1 frontice illustration by Henry Austin.
I have seen covers in Red, Green and Blue.
This is not really a series, but 2 different titles, with the exact same "odd" cover, to me makes a "Set"!!!
This is a series of hard cover books. They measure 5 1/16 x 7 1/2 x 1 inches. The binding is beige with orange, yellow and black trim. The cover art, is an explorer, in yellow, wearing a pithe helmet, gazing through binoculars, and carrying a rifle. He is looking at a sailing ship, and there is a bag of gold at his feet! The spine shows the same explorer.
The title on the spine has been noted in Gold and in Black.
This series is NOT just Jules Verne books!
The volumes have no date printed, but one has been observed with a 1912 inscription.
I assume that the titles in this cover design from AL Burt matches the list of titles in the below "Jules Verne Series" by A L Burt, since there is a climber on the top right of the below cover!
The books were published with a dustjacket.
**Note, only the above 7 titles are listed on the back of the Dustjacket!
The bindings are brown or gold in colour.
Interestingly, I have found an ad from London, 1893, that indicates, that in October (preparing for the Christmas season?) that you could buy "cases" of Jules Verne novels (5 at a time), for a discount of 4 shillings (regulal price 5 shillings).
Named because of the advertisement for Pears' Soap on the back cover.
Comprehensive and detailed listing with cover images available here.
One has an image from the book, the other an image of Jules Verne!
These volumes are paperbound, and probably have a title set, similar to the above listing of Pears Soap Editions, by Sampson Low.
This cover was NOT used exclusively for Jules Verne!
In the mid to late teens (1915-1920) , Sampson Low published Jules Verne books with a "Taj Mahal"/"Onion Dome" type cover.
The covers come in both a Coloured Jungle image as well, as an outline image on the basic cover!
Sampson Low, Martson & Co Ltd.
The covers come in both a Coloured Ship image as well, as an outline image on the basic cover!
Title on gilt background on some, and plain background on others.
Cover depicts 2 men in a balloon. Cover is green with black and cream highlights.
The series came in a matching dustjacket, but it is rare to find it.
91 and 93 Union Street.
Each is bound in in a faux leather binding with "JV" in intials on the rounded edge cover in gilt, and on the title page.
Illustrated, and gilt edges all round.
Maroon, Blue, Green (and red?) seen.
My guess is that it "might" be a memorial edition, published around the time of Jules Verne's death (1905). No way to confirm that at the moment.
In 1976 and 1978, Thomas Y. Crowell Publishers, published 2 volumes Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Freom the Earth to the Moon, which were LANDMARK books that brought to the publics attention the disservice that was made to Jules Verne by poor translations.
"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea has been in print in English for more than a century, but only now, with the appearance of this restored and annotated version, is it possible for the English-reading audience to appreciate the true greatness of this classic \novel.
By comparing the standard translation from which almost all current editions of this book are derived against Verne's original French text, Walter James Miller has made a series of remarkable discoveries that put this novel -- and Verne himself -- in a totally new light. The standard translation, it is now revealed, amounted to a literary hatchet job: The full text of the book, as presented here, is some 23 percent longer than the version which most readers are familiar. Just as important: Virtually all the scientific and other errors that dot the standard text, and which sharp-eyed critics have delighted in finding, now turn out to have been the translator's fault, not Verne's.
Jules Verne did not say that Ned land could light a fire by holding a lentil up to the sun. A lentil? Consider how many millions of readers have puzzled over that. Acutally Ned used a lentille, meaning in French either the vegetable or a lens -- and the "translator" somehow managed to make the wrong choice!
Jules Verne did not make the mistake (as accused in a famous attack in Galaxy Magazine_ of implying that steel is lighter than water. In reality, he said the density of the plates of Captain Nemo's submarine, the Nautilus, was "seven and eight-tenths that of water," not, as the standard stranslation has it, ".7 to .8" of water.
Jules Verne did not confuse "channels" and "canals," "degrees" and "Date," "bell" and "clock," etc., etc., etc.
Science-fiction fans, in other words, owe the Founding Father a great big appology!
Jules Verne -- as the complete, annotated text makes abundantly clear -- is also a far better, more sophisticated writer than a reader of the standard translation could ever guess. Besides making one scientific blooper after another, the original translator, a British parson, omitted many superb scenes, cut out important passages of background information and characterization, mangled the author's best jokes, and soft-pedaled Verne's political and philisophical views, with which the parson and his collaborator (Miller's detective work suggests a helping hand) seemingly disagreed.
For years, while Vernehas been dismissed in the English-speaking world as a children's author, Continental Europeans -- readers and critics alike -- have taken him more seriously. Now we can see why. Verne was an astute psychologist, who created his characters out of flesh and blood, not cardboard, as is usually thought. Moreover, it now appears his social thinking was as advanced as his scientific ideas. In an imperialistic age, Verne was concerned not only with the treatment of primitive peoples, but with the burgeoning power of what today we call the military-industrial comples; Nemo himself lives out the principles of philosophical anarchism. Verne also foresaw the smoldering of French seperatism in Canada, the rebirth of China, and the rise of the American Goliath -- allthis in addition to his scientific prophecies, ranging from the use of electric "stun guns" to the ecological problems that would be caused by hunting the whale and other sea creatures to extinction.
The complete, restored text of this edition has been supplemented by a foreward intriducing Berne and sketching his life, by an afterward in which his work is reappraised, and by some 600 annotations. The latter include notes on the translator's omissions; on the restored passages; on topical and scientific references in the novel; on Verne's autobiographical references; on his literary maneuvers and relations with other writers. Among the 150 illustrations are 23 from the original French edition.
The full text of this classic work, as presented here is this annotated edition, is in every way a fuller, richer, more rewarding novel than the crudely abridged translation, so long presented in its place. It is a veritable feast, one that will delight all readers -- new ones who never read Verne bfore, as well as legions of established Verne fans, who will now enjoy him more than ever.
Walter James Miller -- writer, critic, radio interviewer, poet -- is a professor at New York University."
according to University of Nebraska Press website: "We are no longer accepting submissions for this series, which is inactive."
This may not really be considered a "series" BUT The Luath Press Ltd, has been publishing NEW translations of Jules Verne books related to Scotland, so I am including it here.