THE TRIUMPH OF WOMAN: A CHRISTMAS STORY. London: Parry & Co., Leadenhall Street, MDCCCXLVIII [1848]. Small octavo, pp. [i-iii] iv-v [vi-viii] [1] 2-271 [272: blank], inserted engraved frontispiece, publisher's pictorial red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold and blind, rear panel stamped in blind, cream coated endpapers, a.e.g. First edition, first issue, a primary binding (as per Locke's variant B). Interplanetary novel. "Comic German visited by Neptunian who transmutes copper into gold, travels by magnetism plus power of will, discusses science. Coming from a planet without women, visitor succumbs to charms of German's daughter. Incidental satire of erotical and other manners." - Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 11. "Deftly and lightly handled, despite questions of form. The theme of misogyny is treated on a cliched level and would seem to be a cultural half-joke rather than a serious point." - Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1924. Blackford, et al., Strange Constellations: A History of Australian Science Fiction, p. 228. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 186. Locke, Voyages in Space (2011) V584. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 50. Reginald 12510. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978). Not in Wolff. Spine ends lightly worn, a very good copy. (#179059).
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