Jules Verne: Sets by Publisher - Sampson Low -Taj / Monkey / Big Ship

Books for Boys: Taj/Onion Dome - Monkey/Jungle - Big Ship

This Series of books were produced by Sampson Low from the around 1914 into the 1930`s.
Since it is very hard to distinguish which series these covers are in from Catalogue listings of the period,
I have given each design my own designation (Taj / Monkey / Big Ship).

Three different cover designs look this this:
Taj / Onion Dome	Monkey / Jungle	Big Ship

The cover designs come in 2 styles: Colour and Plain Outline:

The Colour and Plain Outline styles, look like this:
Colour - Taj	Colour - Monkey	Colour - Big Ship

Plain - Taj	Plain - Monkey	Plain - Big Ship

**** It has been discovered (Philip Hollaway / Andrew Nash - April 2023) that the COLOUR version of a title will only be 1 of the 3 possible designs.
i.e. IF there is a TAJ Colour Cover, there will NOT be a Colour Monkey or a Colour Big Ship Colour cover for that Title!!!

The plain cover design is NOT unique to Jules Verne:

FULL List of Titles for each of the Colour Cover designs * These Sampson Low COLOUR covers were ONLY used for Jules Verne titles!!! *
COLOUR Taj/Onion Dome	COLOUR Monkey/Jungle	COLOUR Big Ship
*Around the World in Eighty Days* *The Clipper of the Clouds* *Dropped From the Clouds* *Five Weeks in a Balloon* *The Lottery Ticket (and The Vanished Diamond)* *The Lottery Ticket and The Begums Fortune* *The Lottery Ticket (and The Flight to France)* *The Lottery Ticket (and The Archipelago on Fire)* * The Lottery Ticket* Unclear if this exists on its own!	The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians Burbank the Northerner The Child of the Cavern The Cryptogram From the Earth to the Moon Hector Servadac Purchase of the North Pole The Secret of the Island Texar the Southerner Tigers and Traitors Round the Moon The Vanished Diamond	*Abandoned* *Adrift in the Pacific* *The Archipelago on Fire* *The Blockade Runners* *800 Leagues up the Amazon* *The Floating City* *The Floating Island* *Godfrey Morgan* *Mathias Sandorf* *Survivors of the Chancellor* *Twenty Thouand Leagues Under the Sea*
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The earliest Colour covers had the Title on the Spine in Gilt. These date from 1914/1915. Research: A Colour-Taj Five Weeks, with Black lettered spine Title, has a catalogue in the rear, with an ad saying "Jeffrey Farnol's new Novel will be entitled Beltane the Smith and may be expected in the Autumn". With some digging, Philip Hollaway has found this book was released in August 1915, SO the Black Lettered Five Weeks Spine was published at least before that, AND thus we can assume that the Gilt lettered Five Weeks spine was discontinued before that!, thus the estimate of 1914/1915 for the Gilt lettered spines! ALSO a Colour-Big Ship Abandoned, has a Gilt lettered spine, and the book is inscribed 1915. Examples: The Gilt lettered Spine Titles include: *Abandoned* *The Cryptogram* *Dropped From the Clouds* *800 Leagues on the Amazon* *Five Weeks in a Balloon* *The Floating Island* *The Purchase of the North Pole* *Tigers and Traitors* The Black lettered Title spines would date from 1915 onwards. Examples:

The Plain Outline cover "may" be found in EACH of the 3 designs.

* These Sampson Low Outline-Plain covers were NOT only for Jules Verne titles!!! *

Thus, SOME titles actually have a Colour cover, and ALL three Outline variants!

The Coloured Cover designs use one of 8 Spine designs, and most correspond in some way to the Title:

The EIGHT images on the Spines of the Colour Covers
Balloon	Taj	Castle	Tree	Tiger	Polar Bear	Ship	Cannon/Moon

The Plain-Outline Cover designs use one of 4 Spine designs, and the Correspondence to the Title is more random:

Castle	Tree	Tiger	Ship

Spine Image usage for Colour Cover Designs
Spine Image	Titles with that Corresponding Spine Image
Balloon	The Lottery Ticket (Cover-Taj) Five Weeks in a Balloon (Cover-Taj) Dropped From the Clouds (Cover-Taj) The Clipper of the Clouds (Cover-Taj)
Taj	Around the World in Eighty Days (Cover-Taj)
Castle	The Floating Island (Cover-Big Ship) Floating City (Cover - Big Ship)
Tree	Abandoned (Cover-Big Ship)
Tiger	The Vanished Diamond (Cover-Monkey) The Child of the Cavern (Cover-Monkey) Burbank the Northerner (Cover-Monkey) Texar the Southerner (Cover-Monkey) The Cryptogram (Cover-Monkey) Tigers and Traitors (Cover-Monkey)
Polar Bear	The Purchase of the North Pole (Cover-Monkey) Adventures of Three Englishmen (Cover-Monkey)
Ship	800 Leagues Up the Amazon (Cover-Big Ship) The Archipelago on Fire (Cover-Big Ship) Adrift in the Pacific (Cover-Big Ship) The Blockade Runners (Cover-Big Ship) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Cover-Big Ship) Godfrey Morgan (Cover-Big Ship) Mathias Sandorf (Cover-Big Ship)
Cannon/Moon	Hector Servadac (Cover-Monkey) From the Earth to the Moon (Cover-Monkey) Round the Moon (Cover-Monkey)
NO Colour Cover seen for these Titles	Mystery of the Franklin Michael Strogoff Fur Country Flight to France The End of Nana Sahib Dick Sands A Winter Amid the Ice

The below chart shows ALL COLOUR and ALL OUTLINE Covers

Colour Cover - & Outline Taj & Outline Monkey & Outline Big Ship Checklist
Num.	Title	Colour Cover	Taj - Outline Cover	Monkey - Outline Cover	Big Ship - Outline Cover
1.	*Abandoned* Red Cloth Red Cloth with Gilt Spine
2.	*Adventures of Three Englishmen* AKA: Three Englishmen and Three Russians Tan Cloth Red Cloth
3.	*Adrift in the Pacific* Tan Cloth Red Cloth
4.	*Archipelago on Fire* Red Cloth
5.	*Around the World in Eighty Days* - This Colour cover has been seen in 2 different colour variations: Red Cloth Tan Cloth
6.	*The Blockade Runners* Green Cloth
7.	*Burbank the Northerner* Rose Cloth Note: The Cloth on this book, is more Pink, than the "Reds" of these books
8.	*The Child of the Cavern* Light Green Cloth
9.	*The Clipper of the Clouds* - This Colour cover has been seen in 3 different colour variations: Dark Blue Cloth Light Blue Cloth Tan Cloth
10.	*The Cryptogram* Tan Cloth Light Green Cloth with Gilt Spine
11.	*Dick Sands*
12.	*Dropped From the Clouds* - This Colour cover has been seen in 2 different colour variations: Dark Blue Cloth with Gilt Spine Light Green Cloth Red Cloth "Brick" Cloth
13.	*800 Leagues on the Amazon* Tan Cloth (?) Light Green Cloth with Gilt Spine Red Cloth "Brick" Cloth
14.	*The End of Nana Sahib*	Why is there no COLOUR cover of this? This is the mate to Tigers and Traitors! This volume is only part 1 of The Steam House.
15.	*Five Weeks in a Balloon* Tan Cloth with Gilt Spine Red Cloth "Brick" Cloth
16.	*The Flight to France*
17.	A Floating City Light Green Cloth
18.	*The Floating City and the Blockade Runners*
19.	*The Floating Island* - This Colour cover has been seen in 2 different colour base bindings: Tan Cloth Light Blue Cloth with Gilt Spine Red Cloth Light Blue Cloth
20.	*From the earth to the Moon* Light Blue Cloth Tan Cloth
21.	*From the Earth to the Moon and a Trip Around It* Red Cloth
22.	*The Fur Country* "Brick" Cloth
23.	*Godfrey Morgan* Tan Cloth Red Cloth
24.	*Hector Servadac* Red Cloth Tan Cloth
25.	*The Lottery Ticket* Tan Cloth
26.	*The Lottery Ticket and the Archipelago on Fire* Tan Cloth
27.	*The Lottery Ticket and The Begums Fortune* Light Green Cloth
28.	*The Lottery Ticket and the Flight to France* Tan Cloth
29.	*The Lottery Ticket and The Vanished Diamond* Tan Cloth
30.	*Mathias Sandorf* - Light Green Cloth Note: This cover has a different Font from ALL the other books
31.	*Michael Strogoff* Red Cloth
32.	*The Mysteriy of the 'Franklin'* Red Cloth
33.	*Purchase of the North Pole* Light Blue Cloth Green Cloth Red Cloth with Gilt Spine
34.	*Round the Moon* Tan Cloth
35.	*The Secret of the Island* Light Blue Cloth
36.	*Survivors of the Chancellor* Tan Cloth
37.	*Texar the Southerner* Light Blue Cloth
38.	*Tigers and Traitors* - Light Blue Cloth with Gilt Spine THIS is only part 2 of the Steam House story. End of Nana Sahib is part 1.
39.	*The Tribulations of a Chinaman* Red Cloth
40.	*Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea* Red Cloth "Brick" Cloth
41.	*The Vanished Diamond* Tan Cloth Red Cloth Light Blue Cloth
*42.*	*A Winter Amid the Ice* AKA: A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Stories Red Cloth Blue Cloth

English Book Sets/Series

Sampson Low

Books for Boys: Taj/Onion Dome - Monkey/Jungle - Big Ship

This Series of books were produced by Sampson Low from the around 1914 into the 1930`s.
Since it is very hard to distinguish which series these covers are in from Catalogue listings of the period,
I have given each design my own designation (Taj / Monkey / Big Ship).

Three different cover designs look this this:

The cover designs come in 2 styles: Colour and Plain Outline:

The Colour and Plain Outline styles, look like this:

**** It has been discovered (Philip Hollaway / Andrew Nash - April 2023) that the COLOUR version of a title will only be 1 of the 3 possible designs.
i.e. IF there is a TAJ Colour Cover, there will NOT be a Colour Monkey or a Colour Big Ship Colour cover for that Title!!!

The plain cover design is NOT unique to Jules Verne:

The Plain Outline cover "may" be found in EACH of the 3 designs.

* These Sampson Low Outline-Plain covers were NOT only for Jules Verne titles!!! *

Thus, SOME titles actually have a Colour cover, and ALL three Outline variants!

At the moment (May 2023),
the only titles discovered with all 4 variants of the cover are:

Jump to a chart of ALL KNOWN Covers in these 3 series.

The Coloured Cover designs use one of 8 Spine designs, and most correspond in some way to the Title:

The Plain-Outline Cover designs use one of 4 Spine designs, and the Correspondence to the Title is more random:

The below chart shows ALL COLOUR and ALL OUTLINE Covers

Colour Cover - & Outline Taj & Outline Monkey & Outline Big Ship Checklist

English Book Sets/Series

Sampson Low

Books for Boys: Taj/Onion Dome - Monkey/Jungle - Big Ship

This Series of books were produced by Sampson Low from the around 1914 into the 1930`s. Since it is very hard to distinguish which series these covers are in from Catalogue listings of the period, I have given each design my own designation (Taj / Monkey / Big Ship).

Three different cover designs look this this:

The cover designs come in 2 styles: Colour and Plain Outline:

The Colour and Plain Outline styles, look like this:

**** It has been discovered (Philip Hollaway / Andrew Nash - April 2023) that the COLOUR version of a title will only be 1 of the 3 possible designs. i.e. IF there is a TAJ Colour Cover, there will NOT be a Colour Monkey or a Colour Big Ship Colour cover for that Title!!!

The plain cover design is NOT unique to Jules Verne:

The Plain Outline cover "may" be found in EACH of the 3 designs.

*** These Sampson Low Outline-Plain covers were NOT only for Jules Verne titles!!! ***

Thus, SOME titles actually have a Colour cover, and ALL three Outline variants!

At the moment (May 2023), the only titles discovered with all 4 variants of the cover are:

Jump to a chart of ALL KNOWN Covers in these 3 series.

The Coloured Cover designs use one of 8 Spine designs, and most correspond in some way to the Title:

The Plain-Outline Cover designs use one of 4 Spine designs, and the Correspondence to the Title is more random:

The below chart shows ALL COLOUR and ALL OUTLINE Covers

Colour Cover - & Outline Taj & Outline Monkey & Outline Big Ship Checklist

This Series of books were produced by Sampson Low from the around 1914 into the 1930`s.
Since it is very hard to distinguish which series these covers are in from Catalogue listings of the period,
I have given each design my own designation (Taj / Monkey / Big Ship).

**** It has been discovered (Philip Hollaway / Andrew Nash - April 2023) that the COLOUR version of a title will only be 1 of the 3 possible designs.
i.e. IF there is a TAJ Colour Cover, there will NOT be a Colour Monkey or a Colour Big Ship Colour cover for that Title!!!

* These Sampson Low Outline-Plain covers were NOT only for Jules Verne titles!!! *

At the moment (May 2023),
the only titles discovered with all 4 variants of the cover are: