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2 volumes. (8vo) original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.

"The romance of a flight, in a huge spacecraft powered by a force called apergy, to Mars, populated by scientifically advanced people." - Locke, Voyages in Space 91. "Serious throughout and more substantial than anything that preceded it, Percy Greg's ACROSS THE ZODIAC (1880), in two crowded volumes, brings together much of the best in interplanetary voyages up to this time ... the most fruitful single romance of interplanetary travel written before Wells." - Bailey, Pilgrims Through Space and Time, p. 67-9. "Historically important ... clearly influenced Wells." - Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, p. 22. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-83; (1981) 1-82; (1987) 1-40; (1995) 1-40; and (2004) II-463. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 925. Survey of Science Fiction Literature I, pp. 11-15. Bleiler (1978), p. 87.