THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU. A Possibility.

Limited edition. Signed by the artist. Publisher's original red cloth with gilt titles to the upper board and spine, in dustwrapper, and grey marbled paper covered slipcase. With six full page plates in colour, after oil paintings by Benz and Chang. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, cloth vibrant and gilt titling fresh, with contents clean throughout. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper featuring wraparound artwork by Benz and Chang. Housed in the fine, structurally sound slipcase.

Issued in an edition of 1000 copies, signed by the artist on the colophon. This 'artist edition', published with new illustrations on the 125th anniversary of the April 1896 first publication by William Heinemann, includes extra material in three appendices. Appendix A contains 'Wells Explains: Two Essays Relating to Moreau's Argument', 'The Province of Pain' (1894) and 'The Limits of Individual Plasticity' (1895) Appendix B contains 'The Terrible Medusa Case': An Historical Source for Prendick's Shipwreck. A narrative account of the infamous shipwreck Méduse (1818) which includes a double page reproduction of Théodore Géricault's painting 'The Raft of the Medusa' (c.1819). Appendix C contains Wells's First Draft of Moreau. A study and excerpt from H.G. Wells's original draft of Moreau.