Jules Verne: The Man Who Invented the Future
The book is, of course, Jules Verne: The Man Who Invented the Future, a biography by Franz Born and illustrated by Peter P. Plasencia. It is out of print, from 1964, but available at used booksellers. My favourite of the ones she includes is the one of Verne looking out of the window with papers strewn about with the candle burned to the end, in a setting very different from those he created.
I'm currently re-reading Gail Carriger's Souless, which has a bit of steampunk in it, set in the Victorian era, but these illustrations make me want to pick up in my collection of Verne on the Kindle next.
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