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Large octavo, pp. [1-5] 6 [7] 8 [9] 10-318 [319: blank] [320: ad], flyleaves at front and rear, frontispiece, 45 illustrations by C. Durand Chapman and others, original green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, white endpapers with floral pattern printed in green. First edition, first binding. "A bizarre, often grotesque, fairy tale of science ." - Bailey, Pilgrims Through Space and Time, p. 66. An ambitious lost race novel based on Symmes' theory of concentric spheres. Among the more lavish nineteenth century American SF novels, but perhaps of most interest for its introduction by Julian Hawthorne that "denounces Zola and the literary naturalists, predicting that the future of literature lies with such romances as Bradshaw's." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 1-14. Barron (ed), Fantasy and Horror (1999) 3-15. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 2-21. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 270. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 255. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 091. Howgego, Encyclopedia of Exploration: Invented and Apocryphal Narratives of Travel B44. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 39. Roemer, The Obsolete Necessity, p. 192. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 93. Teitler and Locke, By the World Forgot (2013) 147. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 29. Reginald 01810. Wright (III) 648. Contemporary owner's name on recto of front flyleaf, cloth lightly soiled, some rubbing to binding extremities at head and tail of spine panel and corner tips, a tight, very good copy with bright gold cover stamping. A better than average copy of this book. (#74249). Seller Inventory # 74249
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