From the Earth to the Moon (De la Terre à la Lune)

For Verne the governing trap is the Hetzel cartonnage — decorated pictorial boards issued in many types across several decades. These are later illustrated issues, not the 1865 first; a cartonnage can postdate the true first by decades and is dated by binding type and by the bound-in catalogue. Later Hetzel double volumes pairing De la Terre à la Lune with Autour de la Lune begin in 1872 in French. In English, the abridged Mercier/King text was reprinted for over a century by numerous publishers and is the common reprint text; a copy set from it is a reprint regardless of imprint date.