(#179061) MRS. BROWN ON THE BATTLE OF DORKING. By Arthur Sketchley [pseudonym]. George Rose, "Arthur Sketchley."

MRS. BROWN ON THE BATTLE OF DORKING. By Arthur Sketchley [pseudonym]. London: George Routledge and Sons, n.d. [1871]. Small octavo, pp. [1-2] [1-3] 4-58 [59-61: ads] [62: blank] [note: first and last leaves are used as first and rear paste-downs], publisher's pictorial orange wrappers printed in red and black. First edition. "Not science fiction, but humor based on science fiction ... Two Cockney women comment on George Chesney's pamphlet THE BATTLE OF DORKING (1871) which they assume is factual ... Capable topical humor." - Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 2046. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 6. Clarke, Voices Prophesying War: Future Wars 1763-3749 (1992), p. 226. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, pp. 199-200. Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 117. Reginald 13260. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978). Topp, Victorian Yellowbacks & Paperbacks, 1849-1905 I, pp. 212-213. Some loss of paper on the spine panel, a very good copy of this fragile little book. (#179061).

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