What's New at www.julesverne.ca

This "What's New" page, will let you see quickly what is new, and what has been upated on this site.
I will try to update this anytime I make a "significant" update or change.
This could include

• New Boook images on a page / New Pages / New finds
• A book page "getting the Jules Verne Encyclopedia" treatment!
  The JVE treatment, is me finally updating a book page with ALL the bibliographic entries in the Jules Verne Encyclopedia, and matching those entries with the books already on the page.

• Added David McKay Space Novels to Sets page
• Added 1st Edition Dustjackets to Sampson Low Sets page
• Added Sixpence in Wraps to Ward Lock Sets page
• Added Plain Blue, Gilt Spine, 1st Editions to Sampson Low Sets
• Added Plain Cover Later to Sampson Low Sets
• Updated Second Fatherland / Their Island Home / Castaways of the Flag Book page
• Updated the 1920's Colour and Outline Master of the World

• Possible error in Jules Verne Encyclopedia re A Very Strange Family, Lovell, 1889. Family Without a Name.
• Sampson Low Cheap Books Pears Non-Pears Checklist added
• New Five Weeks in a Balloon added to Sampson Low Celestial
• Newly discovered 1st US Edition added to Family Without a Name
• New page displaying information on Donnelley, Loyd and The Lakeside Library

• Newly discovered Cover Variant A and Variant B on Lad of Grit, published by The Educational Company of Ireland Ltd
• Newly discovered Spine Variant A and Variant B of Sampson Low 1st Edition of The Demon of Cawnpore, 1881

• Numerous changes to the book pages of Castle of the Carpathians, Master of the World
• FIRST TIME Variants discovered of Sampson Low, 1873, 1st Edition, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Variant "A" - Page 142 = 442 / Variant "B" - Page 142 = 142 (and more!)
• FIRST TIME - Above error (page 142 printed as 442) also present in 1873 J R Osgood "Jellyfish" and "Nemo Sextant"

• Added details of For the Flag Serials Battling Beneath the Waves and A Mysterious Force to For the Flag and Newspaper Serials page
• Added Variant B versions of 1st UK Editions of English at the North Pole, Journey to the North Pole and Field of Ice
• Added Variant A & B of The Fur Country, 1888, Seventh Edition
• Updated Sampson Low Cover Progression (from 1st edition to 1900s pictorial)

• Added book page for Salon de 1857
• Added Macgibbon and Kee image and details to the Fitzroy page

• FIRST TIME Identification of Variant A and Variant B of 1st UK Edition of Mathias Sandorf
• FIRST TIME display of National Publishing Company Flight to France

July 10, 2023

• Added Adrift in the Pacific and Flight to France to Newpaper Serials Page
• Newly discovered Red Cover edition of Lad of Grit

• New Page: for Mr Ray Sharp and Ms Mi Flat re English le Figaro and updated Title list
• New page describing the research and all the variations of Sampson LowTaj/Monkey/Big Ship
• revised Sampson Low Sets page
• Revised Rat Family page re le Figaro

• Brand new, collected for the 1st time every, a Jules Verne Yellowback page

• added more images to Sampson Low Jules Verne's Works, One Shilling
• Highlighted the Misspelled "Servadoc" on the Hector Servadac page and the above One Shlling page!
• Hghlighted the Backwards "N" on the 1883 Tribulations of a Chinaman
• Added more images to Sampson Low Pears Banner

• NUMEROUS changes
  Especially to: Sampson Low Sets - Other Publisher Sets - Sampson Low Colour:-Taj / Monkey / Big Ship
  and brand new Colour / Outline - Taj-Monkey-Big Ship covers list
• Also added book covers to Robur the Conqueror, Around the World, Star of the South and more!!!

• updated the Classics Illustrated comic page

• added 2 new Rooutledge Series - Torch Series and Routlege's New Series (Artic DJ)
• added 18th Cover to the R E King and Round the World pages

• Added Numerous Hetzel Covers to the top of many Book pages

• Updated Fur Country page with more details about the 1882-ish Lovell and Worthington copies!!!

• Updated the Fitzroy page with the Granada cover of "From the Earth to the Moon"

• Updated the Adventures of Three Englishmen Page with the "Tenth Thousand" and "Foruteenth Thousand" Shepard editions
• Updated the Newspaper Serials page with "Conquest of the Air" and "Ride on a Comet" in "The Sunday World". New York

• Updated the Fitzroy page with 2 new Consul Books finds
• Updated the Magazine Serial page with St James' From the Earth to the Moon
• created a brand new

• Added new Dustjackets (Imp) to the Sampson Low Sets page (New Abandoned, Castaways of the Flag, Cryptogram, Dick Sands, New Dropped From the Clouds)
• While cataloguing MY collection, I updated all Books pages, that had any of my Arco, Bernard Hanison, Associated Booksellers, Panther, Granada - Fitzroy editions (lots of pages)
• ***included creating a Checklist for Fitzroy Edition (PDF) and (Excel), now available on the Fitzroy page ***
• AND fixed an editing error on the Fitzroy page, that restored the column of DJ images, for books 49 to 63 (They were missing from this page for 3 years!!!)

Important ENGLISH Jules Verne Research updated.

• Early English Jules Verne Publication dates (1852 - 1870) (referenced May 5, 2021 below)

• **Minor Discovery** - Aug 1852 Ad & conclusion to A Balloon Adventure (Voyage in a Balloon - 1852).

• **Minor Discovery** - Discovery of ONE illustration from Around the Moon (From the Earth) in a "random" 1877 Scribner Children's book of illustrations and information.
• Add Scribner 6 Volume Set, Red Cover, on the Sets page AND each of the 6 Book pages.

• Palik Series Webpage updated. with new photos and a format change.
• added NAJVS sponsored Anthology Splash to main page
• updated the format of the main page

• MAJOR research on Mysterious Island in Scribner's Monthly, Nov 1883 to April 1876, chapter and illustration count
  updated Serials page and Mysterious Island page

• NEW DISCOV|ERY of a new Serial version of An Antarctic Mystery, in Boys' Stories of Adventure and Daring
• NEW DISCOVERY of a new Serial version of The Floating Island, in Young and Old
• Every Boys Annual added, and other updates to the Keraban page

• Added many new titles to the Complete list of Verne titles:
• Added a new page for Every Boy's Annual (not connected to julesverne.ca yet!!!)

• Added 2 new "Imp" covers to Sampson Low Sets Page (20k and Clipper of the Clouds) and added same DJ to Clipper of the Clouds page

• Added many details for the 1958 Bernard Hanison and 1964 ARCO A Floating City
• Added a new Chronicles of the Imp A Floating City and a Unique Dropped from the Clouds DJ

• over the last week, I have added new pictures to the Other Sets page
• Added a new Set, Group of Boys, to the Routledge part of the Other Sets page.
• Added to the 20k page, an 1892 Phoenix Publisher book
• Added Rose Buds, Flowers and Wisteria Series to the Ward Lock Page
• Added the 14th Tour of the World R E King book (Black Cover- inscr 1899) to the R E King and Tour of the World pages.

• Expanded the Sets listing for Jules Verne Series (Explorer) by Hurst.
• Also distributed the photos to the respective book pages: Facing the Flag, Claudius Bombarnac, etc
• Updated the Routledge listings on the Sets Page, especially Half-Crown Juvenile series
• Updated Fur Country page with the 3 "contents" variants of the Routledge Fur Country of the Half-Crown series

• Numerous updates and additions to the Jules Verne Series by M A Donohue
• Total Revamp of the Jules Verne "Sets" page. Instead of vertically listing all the sets, I have gone to a table method, so the user does not need to Scroll as much.
• Add images to the Five Weeks in a Balloon Discoveries that were added below
• Added an entry for the 1898 edition of Michel Strogoff, the Montreal Published play.

Important ENGLISH Jules Verne Research updated.

• new appearances of mentions and synopsis of Five Weeks in a Balloon, identified by Andrew Nash, April 15, 2021 are finally added to the books page! Five Weeks 1st mention is now Jan 1863, NOT Oct 1868

Important ENGLISH Jules Verne Research updated.

• new appearances of A Voyage in a Balloon identified by Andrew Nash, early 2021 finally added to the stories page

• Added numerous images to the Sampson Low Sets "Imp" set
• Added Circa 1884 Worthington to Fur Country

• Added more details about the various address differences for the Sampson Low Celestial covers
• updated all Book pages that have Sampson Low Celestial covers
• Added more details about the Phillips & Mowle book, Around the World page, circa 1895
• Added Blue and Green "Sun and Cloud" Ward Lock covers to the Journey to the Centre page

• Added more details about the various style differences for the Sampson Low Celestial covers

• Added Phillips & Mowle publisher book to Around the World page, circa 1895
• Added Green cover to the Sun and Clouds Series of Ward Lock sets

• Updated the Sampson Low Sets page with more thumbnails images
• Updated the Hybrid Bindings page

• Site maintenance and cleanup. I made a lot of changes/corrections, so I hope all still works properly.
  I fixed: Footers that pointed to the wrong main page / Updated "Old Book Page" redirects, so if another
  site linked to a page, the old page will redirect to the new book page.
• I added the Short Story link for Christopher Columbus to the title index and the new link for
  play Castles of California

• Updated the Sampson Low Gilt Title non-pears page with 3 new Gilt Title images
• Updated the Ward, Lock Sets page with more information and images for the Captain Library series
• Updated the Sampson Low Sets page with more thumbnails images of:
  Art Deco, Celestial, Taj, Big Ship, Small Ship, Monkey, Explorer covers.
  Images and title list are sorted by Book title

• Seperated the Ward, Lock Sets into their OWN page, removing them from the Sets page.Added a Tadpole/Frog set to the sets page.

• Updated the Richard Edward King / R E King Publisher Page

• added Ward Lock "The Captain Library Series" to the Sets page
• and updated each of the Book pages with more information on that Ward Lock set
  Around the World, Five Weeks, Journey to the Center, From the Earth, Twenty Thousand, Captain Hatteras, Captain Grant

• Updated the Richard Edward King / R E King Publisher Page

• fixed the broken links on the Zvi Har'El "Illustrations of Jules Verne Books" page.

• updated, and completed the JVE treatment to A Winter Amid the Ice page.

• performed the Jules Verne Encyclopedia treatment to Dr Ox's Experiment, and updated numerous images, including Gill plain cover, Amazing Stories Pulp, 1950 collection, Lakeside Library, Sampson Low 2nd Edition, Amerion...
  (Thank you Philip Hollaway for assistance)

• Added 1950s Sampson Low to Winter Amid the Ice page
• Added 1st edition Hybrid to Doctor Ox page
• Added 1950s Sampson Low to Vanished Diamond page
• Added image for Scribneer serial edition of Mysterious Island, 1874

• cosmetically updated the Canadian Jules Verne Book page, and added the 2 new Mistress Branican finds

• Added circa 1895 Routledge book to From the Earth to the Moon
• Added 2 newly found Canadian publications, to Mistress Branican, 1893 era (NO photos)

• Updated and performed the JVE treatment to Waif of the Cynthia
• Updated the Title Xref with additional names for Mathias Sandorf and Waif of the Cynthia

• Updated and performed the JVE treatment to Mathias Sandorf AND updated images for 1908 Seaside Library edition
• Added Seaside Library Catalogue image to Seaside Library section of Munro Sets AND added the "number of pages" to the Seaside AND an image of 574 Mathias

April 21, 2021

• Updated details of the 1st UK Serial edition (1876) of Michael Strogoff, added a new Lupton "The Leisure Hour" (1889) to From the Earth to the Moon,
• added Celestial Spine to Dick Sands book page, and to Sampson Low Sets page.
• revamped top of the page for Five Weeks in a Balloon, seperating the "Review/Synopsis" from the "Book Collecting Information"

• Added the 1861 "The Sixpenny" discovery to the Voyage in a Ballon Page
• & added images of Musee de Famille as well as Newspaper images

• Added a teaser at the top of the Five Weeks book page, to indicate that I have made a MAJOR discovery
• Udated Five Weeks in a Balloon book page re the Dec 5, 1868 - "Every Saturday" article inclding a new page that shows the full article.
• Updated Sampson Low Pears page, with 4 new "Banner" images - Giant Raft (Pt 1 & 2), Five Weeks, and Godfrey Morgan
• Updated Around the World Book page with 1897 Lee and Shepard - Norwood Series
• Updated Twenty Thousand Leagues Book page, with circa 1900 Nisbet edition

• Updated Hector Servadac page, with more 1st edition images, and enlarged other images on page. Added Hetzel cover image to top of page.

• Updated Hector Servadac page, to show 2 variants of US Scribner 1st edition, WITH photos

• Updated Dick Sands 1st Edition, Scribners, to indicate an illustration missing, is normal
• Updated Hector Servadac 1st US Edition entries; re 2 volume vs 1 volume
• Updated Mysterious Island book page, to indicated that Scribner, Abandonded, 1st edition 1875 and 2nd edition 1876 are both missing illustration "Flotsam and Jetsam", pg 22.
  This is know in all copies (TELL ME IF YOU KNOW DIFFERENT!)
• Redesigned MAIN page - still under construction - NEW MAIN OLD MAIN

• 1895 to 1910 R E King Publisher entries
• Made announcement that the Illustrator of the R E King 1900 edition, is Gordon Frederick Browne
• added an 1880 Worthington Tadpole/Frog cover edition

• Created a Richard Edward King / R E King Publisher page.

• Announced new finds of early English versions of the short story A Voyage in a Balloon, in 1852 (April and September)
  AND merged a new “Voyage/Drama in the air” page with the existing A Voyage in a Balloon page

• Now has 2 English translations of the Jules Hetzel's (Publisher) "Purpose of the new series Voyages Extraordinaires.
• Has a new section, grouping The Voyage Extraordinaires novels into the Region / Type classificaiton that J Hetzel created, for advertising etc
• Add a link just below the French and English titles at the top of the Book pages of each of the 54 Voyages Extraordinaires titles  (5 Weeks, Around the World, Mathias Sandorf etc etc etc) back to the updated page, above.
  This new link/text indicates what Number the book is in the Voyages Extraordinaires!

• Updated my VoyagesExtraordinaires.com page, in preparation for adding ALL Hetzel Covers! (that will be a long project)

• Seperated the Sampson Low Sets into their OWN page, removing them from the Sets page.Added a Tadpole/Frog set to the sets page.

What's New, takes a Hiatus! for 19 years!! (Sorry!!!)

New Around the World in 80 Days Play / Kiralfy Brothers Page: julesverne.ca/jvkiralfy.html

Partially redisigned "collect.html" page

Added more separate book links to my titles page:
http://www.julesverne.ca/vernetitles.html