1st Edition 1885. Catalogue dated April 1885. A excellent early example of Victorian science-fiction and one of the earliest works to imagine a total return of the natural world as the normal industrial world collapses. England has reverted to nature, society relapsed into barbarism, the Thames valley flooded to become an inland sea, and London lies buried beneath a miasmal swamp. Book is very good with bright boards. Edges lightly rubbed in places. Light marking to cloth. Contents good. Foxing to pages. Small bookplate to endpaper. A better than usual example.