It is likely that the serialization was intended to create interest in Shepard's pirated edition of part one of THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND, published in late October 1874 (a rave review of this book and scientific 'wonder stories eagerly read by all men' appears in the December 1874 issue of AMERICAN HOMES). The first part of a six-part illustrated serialization of part one of Jules Verne's 'The Mysterious Island,' adapted and abridged by Hawley Lee, appeared in the August 1874 issue of AMERICAN HOMES, a magazine published by Henry L. Regardless of which edition came first, the Shepard edition is much scarcer than the Scribner, Armstrong edition. According to Taves and Michaluk, both Scribner, Armstrong's and Shepard's 1874 editions were published simultaneously on 24 October 1874. It may have preceded the earlier 1874 Scribner, Armstrong 110-page double column edition published as THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND. The American Catalogue dates this unauthorized Shepard edition 1874 and it definitely preceded the 310-page Scribner, Armstrong edition published in 1875 as THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND: DROPPED FROM THE CLOUDS. Kingston (here uncredited) of L'ILE MYSTÉRIEUSE: LES NAUFRAGÉS DE L'AIR (1874). Ferat), original pictorial terra cotta cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black and gold, yellow coated endpapers. 5-202, flyleaves at front and rear, 42 full-page illustrations (re-engraved after drawings by J.

The mysterious island first edition