10, 89 p. with frontispiece and 20 illustrations on 17 plates. Softcover. Some traces of use. Covers faded, some spotting. Spine a bit damaged. Original cover without illustration. In all good copy.
The mechanical engineer, inventor and author John Lawrence Hodgson (1881-1936), received his education at the University of Nottingham. He specialized in measurement apparatuses and instruments and held 51 patents. Keenly interested in aviation, he obtained his flying licence in 1917. Married to suffragette Joan Wickham. For some years he worked in South Africa where the couple met Olive Schreiner and other personalities. The novel envisions Hodgson's ideas of future technology and society. Numbered, signed and dedicated by the author, No. 312, dated 1932. Illustrators: Edwin Lutyens, A.E. Richardson, Ethelwyn Baker, Jean Campbell, Albert Daenens, Mervyn Wilson and John Hodgson. Very scarce science fiction novel.
