![[SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797-1851)]. The Last Man. By the Author of Frankenstein, London: Henry Colburn, 1826. 8° (187 x 117mm). (Without half titles.) Contemporary speckled half calf, spines gilt in compartments with tan and black morocco lettering-pieces (extremities lightly rubbed, some cracking to spines). Provenance: Sir Robert Johnson Eden, Bart. (armorial bookplate). Second edition. Block p.213; Lyles B2c: "Differs only from [the first edition] in that 'Second Edition' appears on the title pages of the three volumes"; Summers A Gothic Bibliography p.383. Set in the late 21st-century, the novel describes a pandemic plague which wipes out the human race, leaving only its narrator as the eponymous survivor.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2004/CSK/2004_CSK_09808_0012_000(074217).jpg?w=1)
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[SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797-1851)]. The Last Man. By the Author of Frankenstein, London: Henry Colburn, 1826. 8° (187 x 117mm). (Without half titles.) Contemporary speckled half calf, spines gilt in compartments with tan and black morocco lettering-pieces (extremities lightly rubbed, some cracking to spines). Provenance: Sir Robert Johnson Eden, Bart. (armorial bookplate). Second edition. Block p.213; Lyles B2c: "Differs only from [the first edition] in that 'Second Edition' appears on the title pages of the three volumes"; Summers A Gothic Bibliography p.383. Set in the late 21st-century, the novel describes a pandemic plague which wipes out the human race, leaving only its narrator as the eponymous survivor.
[LOUDON, Jane Webb (1807-58)]. The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century, London: Henry Colburn, 1828. 3 volumes, 8° (186 x 113mm). Contemporary half calf gilt (extremities rubbed, head of upper joint of vol. one splitting). Provenance: Sir Robert Johnson Eden, Bart. (armorial bookplate). Second edition. Block p.143. First published in 1827, Jane Webb Loudon's Utopian novel, set in the year 2126, is an early and fascinating example of the science fiction genre with a feminist slant. (6)
[LOUDON, Jane Webb (1807-58)]. The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century, London: Henry Colburn, 1828. 3 volumes, 8° (186 x 113mm). Contemporary half calf gilt (extremities rubbed, head of upper joint of vol. one splitting). Provenance: Sir Robert Johnson Eden, Bart. (armorial bookplate). Second edition. Block p.143. First published in 1827, Jane Webb Loudon's Utopian novel, set in the year 2126, is an early and fascinating example of the science fiction genre with a feminist slant. (6)
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