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"Around the World in Eighty Days" by Jules Verne. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1873. First fully illustrated American edition

This is Verne’s most popular novel and it was first translated from French to English for the American and British markets. This American edition from James R. Osgood has 54 inserted plates with illustrations by A. de Neuville and L. Benett. It was printed in London from the plates of Sampson Low’s British edition which came out a few weeks earlier, in November 1873. James R. Osgood is also credited with the first English-language edition of the novel. Osgood published it in the summer of 1873 in a small pocket-sized format with just one illustration, called “The Tour of the World in 80 Days.”

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