The Mummy (Mummy!) - Jane Webb Loudon - first edition

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The Mummy (Mummy!) - Jane Webb Loudon - first edition

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Description : 16 May, 2023

First Edition, First Printing (3 Volume set) - the is Volumes II only . A very rare edition and an intact text copy copy, covers have separated but are present. This is a First Edition, First Printing . The pages are clean with some discoloration and minor wear. There is writing of the previous owners name on the inside cover of the book. plete 3 volume set retails for anywhere between 12 and 35 k depending on condition. Thus the price of this book. I have the other 2 volumes but they have been severely water damaged and are unsaleable. . Publisher: Henry Colburn, London Publication Date: 1827 Binding: Hardcover Condition: fair Edition: 1st Edition . The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century is an 1827 three-volume novel written by Jane Webb (later Jane C. Loudon). It concerns the Egyptian mummy of Cheops, who is brought back to life in the year 2126. The novel describes a future filled with advanced technology, and was the first English-language story to feature a reanimated mummy. This became one of the first science fiction works and more specifically one of the first successful works by a female author in that genre.

After her father's death, making her an orphan at the age of 17, Webb found that on the winding up of his affairs that it would be necessary to do something for my support. I had written a strange, wild novel, called the Mummy, in which I had laid the scene in the twenty-second century, and attempted to predict the state of improvement to which this country might possibly arrive. .

She may have drawn inspiration from the general fashion for anything pharaonic, inspired by the French researches during the Napoleonic invasion of Egypt; the 1821 public unwrappings of Egyptian mummies in a theatre near Piccadilly, which she may have attended as a girl; and, very likely, the 1818 novel by Mary Shelley - Frankenstein. . As Shelley had written of Frankenstein's creation, "A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch," which may have triggered her later concept. In any case, at many points she deals in greater clarity with elements from the earlier book such as the loathing for the much-desired object and the immediate arrest for crime and attempt to lie one's way out of it. However, unlike the Frankenstein monster, the hideous revived Cheops is not shuffling around dealing out horror and death, but giving canny advice on politics and life to those who befriend him. In some ways The Mummy! may be seen as her reaction to themes in Frankenstein: her mummy specifically says he is allowed life only by divine favour, rather than being indisputably vivified only by mortal science. The Mummy! Or a Tale of the Twenty-Second Century was published anonymously in 1827 by Henry Colburn in three volumes, as was usual in that day so that each small volume could be easily carried around. Later the 46-year-old reviewer, John Claudius Loudon, sought out the 22-year-old Webb, and they married the next year . cash only no deliveries

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