Une ville flottante ; Les forceurs de blocus ; Aventures de 3 russes et de 3 anglais
An 1872 Hetzel omnibus of three Jules Verne tales — Une ville flottante, Les forceurs de blocus and Aventures de 3 Russes et de 3 Anglais — issued in Paris for a general French reading public, with wood-engraved plates after drawings by Jules Férat. The plates work in dense grey hatching: a steamship's crowded deck heeling into open sea, surveyors under a parasol on flat African scrub, two armed men confronting each other among rocks, and a title cartouche of a flag-topped fort under assault, useful for period ship rigging, expedition figures and framed heading devices.
