Last updated: February 19, 2024

Sampson Low

Cover Progression from 1873 to 1907
1sts, New and Cheaper, New Edition, Later Editions and Colour Pictorial

NOT including: 1 Shilling Jules Verne's Works, Pears Edition, Pear-like Editions (Gilt Banner, Grey Banner etc.)

SAMPSON LOW SETS

If you look through all the books that Sampson Low published of Jules Verne, you will find that many editions were published with a Dark Green cloth cover!

You will find that these Dark Green covers will be one of the following 3 Examples:

  1. a 1st Edition that is a "Regular" edition published in the same year as a "Deluxe" 1st Edition, but at a cheaper price.
  2. a "New and Cheaper" edition, that is published at a later date than the 1st Edition
  3. a later edition, that is published at a date later than the 1st edition, and is identified on the title page as: "Third Edition" or "Tenth Edition" for example
This page will attempt to identify ALL the Dark Green covers and show where they place in the Sampson Low publishing!
Sampson Low Publications of Dark Green and New and Cheaper editions

1st Edition Deluxe & Standard

New and Cheaper Edition

Later edition

Later edition

New and Cheaper / 1900-1905
(Colour Pictorial Cover)
Adrift in the Pacific - 1889
1893 - New and Cheaper

Also, possibly "no date"
1894
The Adventures of Three Englishmen - 1873

1873 - Standard

1896 - New Edition
NO "Jules Verne" on cover!

1896 - New Edition
"Jules Verne" on Cover

1875
1879 - Third Edition
The Archipelago on Fire - 1886
1888 - New and Cheaper

1888 - ALSO New and Cheaper


Note: "Jules Verne" on cover is
different from the 1888 Cover

nd - ALSO New and Cheaper
Around the World in Eighty Days - 1873
1895 - New Edition

"Curly Queue J"
1874 - Deluxe
(Sometimes labeled Third Edition)

Since 1873 SO Rare, some consider
this a 1st Edition!

1875 - Fifth Edition

1879 - Sixth Edition

1885

1888 - Eighth Edition

1892 - New Edition

nd - New Illustrated

1905 - New Edition

1905 - Seventy-Eighth Thousand

The Begums Fortune - 1880
1887 - New Edition
Captain Antifer - 1895
nd (circa 1897) - New and Cheaper nd - circa 1897 - Macgregor Edition

The above "would" be the cover, but it
has not been seen, yet!
The Castle of the Carpathians - 1893
nd - New and Cheaper

Different Jules Verne Font
from the 1st Edition
nd - circa 1895

The above "would" be the cover,
but it has not been seen, yet!
nd -

This has Bevelled Boards
Caesar Cascabel - 1891
nd - (circa 1894) - New and Cheaper
The Child of the Cavern - 1877
1878 - New and Cheaper
1883 - Third Edition
1892 - Fourth Edition
Claudius Bombarnac - 1894
nd - New and Cheaper

nd - circa 1895 - New and Cheaper
- Macgregor Edition

This edition HAS the extra White
Detail on the cover!

The Clipper of the Clouds - 1887
1892 - New and Cheaper

nd - ALSO New and Cheaper
Bookplate 1905

Curly Queue "J"

nd - (circa 1905) - New and Cheaper

Different Font for Jules Verne

Clovis Dardentor - 1897 - Deluxe

Bevelled Boardd- All Edges Gilt

1897 - Standard - NO bevelled
boards - No Gilt Edges

1897 - Standard - Bevelled boards
- NO Gilt Edges

Dick Sands - 1879
1881 - Second Edition

1891
Dr Ox's Experiment - 1874
1875 - Second Edition
Family without a Name - 1891
nd (ads 1894) - New and Cheaper

nd (ads 1893) - New and Cheaper

1874 - Five Weeks in a Balloon
Second Edition


indicates "Second Edition" in deference to
the 1870 Chapman First Edition

nd - circa 1890 - New and Cheaper


Curly Queue "J"

1876 - Third Edition (Bevelled Cover)

1879 - Fifth Edition
1887 - Sixth Edition

nd - Eigth Edition
nd - New and Cheaper
Note: Jules Verne has a different Font

The Flight to France - 1888 - Deluxe

1888 - Standard

1891 - New and Cheaper
A Floating City - 1874
1895 - New and Cheaper


Curly Queue "J"
1875 - Second Edition
1882 - Third Edition

nd - Authors Copyright


Jules Verne different font than New
and Cheaper
The Floating Island - 1896 - Deluxe

1896 - Standard

nd (1897) - New and Cheaper
nd - Macgregor Edition

This edition has not been seen
yet, but sould look like this!
For the Flag - 1897 - Deluxe

1897 - Standard

1897 - New and Cheaper Edition

This is 1/2 inch shorter than the 1st Ed.
Foundling Mick - 1895 - Deluxe

1895 - Standard

1897 - New and Cheaper

Gilt all Edges, Bevelled Board

nd (circa 1896) - New and Cheaper

nd - New and Cheaper Edition
Macgregor Edition
From the Earth to the Moon - 1873
1875 - Fourth Edition
1892 - Ninth Edition (sic)

1896 - Tenth Edition

nd - Eleventh Edition

1907 - Twelfth Edition

Fur Country - 1874
1874 - Fourth Edition

1875 - Fifth Edition

1879 - Sixth Edition

1888 - Seventh Edition - Variant A

1888 - Seventh Edition - Variant B

The Giant Raft
Eight Hundred - 1881 - Deluxe

1881 - Standard

1889 - New and Cheaper
The Giant Raft
Cryptogram - 1882 - Deluxe

1882 - Standard

nd -

Curly Queue "J"

nd - Bookplate 1916

Godfrey Morgan - 1883
1885 - New and Cheaper
nd - New and Cheaper
Hector Servadac - 1878
1881 - Second Edition
Keraban
Captain of the Guidara - 1884 - Deluxe

1884 - Standard

1887
Keraban
Scarpante - 1885 - Deluxe

1885 - Standard

1887
The Lottery Ticket - 1887
1889 - New and Cheaper
Mathias Sandorf - 1886
1888 - New and Cheaper
Michael Strogoff - 1877
1880
1894
Mistress Branican - 1892
nd - New and Cheaper

Deep Blue, not Green!
Mysterious Island - Dropped - 1875
xx
1906 - New and Cheaper
Mysterious Island - Abandoned - 1875
1906 - New and Cheaper
Mysterious Island - Secret - 1875
nd - copyright 1876
1879 - Third Edition

nd - 6th Edition

nd - 7th Edition

1906 - New and Cheaper

North Against South - 1888 - Deluxe

1888 - Standard

1891
The Purchase of the North Pols - 1891
1894
1898

nd - inscribed 1912
Bevelled Boards!
Gilt Edges
The Steam House - Demon - 1881
1885
1892
The Steam House - Tigers - 1881
1887 - Second Edition
1893
Survivors of the Chancellor - 1875

1875 - 1st as well, BUT in Dark Green

1880

1891

The Tribulations of a Chinaman - 1880
1883 - Third Edition
nd - (circa 1890s) - New and Cheaper
Twenty Thousand Leagues - 1873
1873 - Third Edition

1875 - Seventh Edition - Deluxe

1876 - Ninth Edition - Deluxe (?)

1876 - Ninth Edition - Regular (?)

1879 - Tenth

1885 - No Dots

|nd - Circa 1890 - Dots

xx - (circa 1895 - 1905)
The Vanished Diamond - 1885

"Deluxe" has the "Rays" in White ink
1888 - New and Cheaper

1891 - New and Cheaper

1896 - New and Cheaper

Curly Queue "J"
**Is there a "Straight J Version"?

 
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