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Around the World in Eighty Days & Five Weeks in a Balloon

Jules Verne

First published 1994
Publisher Wordsworth Editions
Format Trade Paperback
Type Omnibus
Cover art Pal Szintei Merse
Pages xviii+[6]+359
ISBN 1853260908

  • First printing of this edition. Printer's key: 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1
  • Title page has the title(s), author, Introduction and Notes by [over] PROFESSOR ROGER CARDINAL [over] University of Kent at Canterbury, and "Wordsworth Classics"
  • On copyright page: This edition published 1994 by Wordsworth Editions Limited. © Wordsworth Editions Limited 1994
  • Printed in Great Britain
  • Back cover states "Cover design by Robert Mathias, Publishing Workshop","Cover illustration, a detail from Hot Air Balloon by Pal Szintei Merse (1845-1920) Magyar Nemzeti Galeria, Budapest"
  • A half-page "General Introduction" on unnumbered p.[v], signed General Adviser [over] Keith Carabine [over] Rutherford College [over] University of Kent at Canterbury.
  • "Introduction" starting on the same unnumbered p.[v] through xviii. "Contents" on unnumbered pp.[1]-[6] before page 1.
  • Novel Five Weeks in a Balloon ends on p.354. Unsigned Notes (by Roger Cardinal) on pp.[355]-359.
  • Around the World in Eighty Days is the P. Desages translation. Five Weeks in a Balloon is the Arthur Chambers translation.