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<B>Mary Shelley: <I>The Last Man</B></I>.</B></I> (London: Henry Colburn, 1826), first edition, three volumes, Volume I: 358 pages, with two page advertisement for "Interesting Works printed for Henry Colburn, S. New Burlington Street", and 12 pages of ads for "Valuable Standard Works printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London", Volume II: 328 pages, Volume III: 353 pages, rebound in banded half-leather with marbled boards, pages irregularly trimmed, 8vo (5" x 8.25"). Set in the 21st century, <I>The Last Man</B></I> tells the story of six characters who belong to the supposedly final generation of humans on earth. In certain aspects, the characters bear more than a passing resemblance to members of the Shelley circle-Mary Shelley, P. B. Shelley, Claire Clairemont, and Byron. Mary Shelley herself noted that two characters in <I>The Last Man,</B></I> Lord Raymond, adventurer, hero, nobleman, and eventually head of state, and Count Adrian, earl of Windsor, son of the last king of England represented "faint portraits…of B.<B>yron and S-but this is a secret". In 1826, reviewers of <I>The Last Man</B></I> generally condemned the novel as beyond the pale for its effective depictions of death and disease. A central philosophy in all of Mary Shelley's works, and particularly in <I>The Last Man,</B></I> is that through imagination one can re-see the world. This set of <I>The Last Man</B></I> is in very good condition. Each has mild edge, corner, and spine wear. Spines sunned on each volume. Volume II has foxing on title page, contemporary ink letters in top margin of page 25, stain from a pressed plant on facing pages 80-81. Volume III shows foxing on title page, single dot of foxing on pages 2-7, spot at bottom edge of pages 349-352, binder's notes in pencil on back pastedown, and lightly foxed endpapers. <I>From the Betty Bennett Collection.</B></I><BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Books & Catalogs (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>) <BR><BR><B>Important notic
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