WELLS, H.G. | Bayntun | Works of H.G. Wells, The A Finely Bound Set of the Best Edition of the Works of H.G. WellsWELLS, H.G. The Works of H.G. Wells. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1924-1927.Atlantic Edition. One of 620 numbered sets for Great Britain and Ireland (this set being No. 73), out of a total edition of 1,670 sets. Signed by H.G. Wells. Twenty-eight octavo volumes (8 11/16 x 6 inches; 221 x 153 mm.). Photogravure frontispieces.Bound ca. 1960 by Bayntun of Bath (stamp-signed on the verso of the front free endpaper) in three-quarter dark red crushed levant morocco, ruled in gilt, over red cloth boards. Spines paneled and lettered in gilt in compartments with five raised bands, top edge gilt, ìCockerellî marbled endpapers. Spines very slightly faded. A fine set of the best edition of Wellsís works.English novelist and journalist H.G. Wells (1866-1946), ìis known for his science fiction, his satirical novels, and his popular accounts of history and science. He was a vigorous advocate of socialism, feminism, evolutionism, nationalism, and the advancement of science. The first great writer of science fiction, Wells produced The Time Machine [1895], The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds [1898], and The First Man in the Moon (1901), among many others. Coming down to earth in his next period, he wrote such realistic novels as Kipps (1905), Tono-Bungay [1909], The History of Mr. Polly (1910), and The New Machiavelli (1911)ÖAmong Wellsís later works were such popular nonfiction as the Outline of History (1920) and its compressed version, A Short History of the World (1922). Throughout Wellsís enormously productive life, he was deeply concerned with the survival of society. From Mankind in the Making (1903) and A Modern Utopia (1905) to Men Like Gods (1923), he tried to depict an ideal worldî (Benétís Readerís Encyclopedia).Hammond, pp. 153-157. 1924 signed Price: USD 13,500.00 other currencies   order no. 00024    inquire

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