STANLEY, William Ford Robinson (1829-1909).  The Case of The[odore] Fox being his Prophesies under Hypnotism of the Period Ending A.D. 1950. A Political Utopia. London: Truslove & Hanson, 1903. Square 8vo. Half title, half tone frontispiece of "Stanleyton on Thames 1950", illustration of a tunnel beneath the English Channel (some marginal staining to frontispiece, spotting to title and first and last few leaves). Original blue cloth, spine with title "Utopia" stamped in gilt, with a fox's head and tail beneath (covers waterstained). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, the half title inscribed, "Mrs J. Chandler with the author's kind regards, Wm. J. S." A work of uncanny, but hit-and-miss, prescience, in which the author foresees Paris as the capital of a United States of Europe accessible in three hours from London by electric train through a Channel Tunnel, women granted the vote, transport provided by electric "hotel trains" with a summer line across Siberia linking Europe and America, telephones connected to gramophones to provide answering-machines, "little celluloid cards" replacing currency, and fox hunting banned. Less accurate was his prediction that there would be no commercial future for mass air transport, but only bigger and better ocean liners.