Sold for:
$1,107
$1,107
Loudon, Jane (1807-1858) The Mummy! a Tale of the Twenty-second Century. London: Colburn, 1828. Second edition, three octavo volumes, bound in uniform contemporary tan calf, spines perished, boards scratched and detached, 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 in. In this early work of science fiction Jane Loudon imagines the year 2126, where the British monarch is the Catholic Queen Claudia. Loudon provides specific descriptions of fashion, technology, and other details about this future world, with an obvious debt to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein .
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2014-05-31
