Newnes, George [editor]; Conan Doyle, A.; Kipling, Rudyard; Verne, Jules; de Paléologue, Jean [translator]; Haité, George Charles [illustrator]
London: George Newnes, Ltd., 1891/1892/1893/1894/1896/1897. First Editions, First Printings. Octavo, 8 volumes; G+; full teal cloth bindings over beveled boards with black illustration to front covers and black and gilt titling and decoration to spines; some shelfwear to covers, including rubbing, chipping and small frayed tears to heads and tails of spines, and significant spine discoloration to volumes III and XI; textblocks clean, volumes VIII and XI all edges gilt, all other volumes faded black top edge dye with red speckling to fore and bottom edges; heavy offset to ffep and rfep of volumes I and XIII, partial endpaper splits to expose webbing in volumes I, IV, V, and VI, small open tear at fore edge of ffep in volume XI; light foxing throughout all volumes; black and white illustrations throughout all volumes; textblock splits to volume I at spreads 130-1, 142-3, 270-1, and 394-5, to volume III at spreads 190-1, 202-3, and 426-7, to volume IV at spreads 18-9, 110-1, 194-5, 206-7, 220-3, 322-3, 342-3, 442-3, 450-1, 454-5, 464-5, 502-3, 530-1, to volume V at spreads 282-3 and 288-9, to volume VI at spreads 290-1, 296-7, 458-9, and 562-3, to volume VII at spread 444-5, to volume XI at spreads 122-3, 250-1, 262-3, 474-5, 480-1, 578-9, and to volume XIII at spreads 166-7, 430-1, 450-1, 454-5, 572-3, 594-5, and 602-3; paper manufacturing error and subsequent printing error at page 463 of volume I; shelved above Civil War. More