[Webb (Jane) [Mrs Loudon (Jane)]

The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century

3 vol., second edition., lacking half-titles to vols 2 & 3, half-title to vol. 1 not needed, early half green calf over marbles boards, sides rubbed, vol 3 with repair to lower rear joint at head, red leather lettering labels, gilt, new end-papers and free-end leaves, volume one with a number of leaves repaired to gutter, insect damage in need of repair to pages 209-212, repairs occurring in gutter in a few places to vols 2 & 3, slightly foxed and soiled in places,[ Block, The English Novel, p. 143; Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy II, p. 131] 8vo., 1828

*** As noted by Locke, this edition differs substantially from the first edition and modern editions are abridged. In a clear warning that both editions are needed to complete a collection, Locke amusingly reports, "[first edition] bought at Sotheby's expensively to replace my second edition in the certain knowledge that I'd be able to recoup a major part of my investment by selling that second edition. I was therefore mortified to find the textual difference between the two that forced me to retain both copies