Erewhon
by Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler's Erewhon, or Over the Range was published anonymously 1872. In this satire of Victorian society, the main character Higgs discovers an unknown country, the seeming utopia called Erewhon, Nowhere backwards with the "h" and "w" transposed. The starting chapters detailing the discovery of Erewhon were based on Butler's experiences in New Zealand as a young man. Butler was possibly the first to write about the idea that machines might one day develop consciousness through the process of Darwinian Selection.
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Edition Notes
"Text of the Shrewsbury edition"--Colophon.
"The edition is limited to three hundred copies"--Colophon.
"Printed by William MacCance at the Gregynog Press ... The music on page fifty-one was inscribed by Rosemary Ratcliffe, and cut on wood by R.J. Beedham. Hand-set in Baskerville type by Richard Owen Jones, and Idris Vaughan Jones. Pressman, Herbert John Hodgson"--Colophon.
Published 11 February 1933. Cf. Harrop, D. A History of the Gregynog Press, 1980.
Printed on Japanese Vellum.
MASS copy: No. 31 of the limited edition, bound in full sage-coloured Welsh sheepskin and signed "Gregynog Press Bindery" on pastedown of lower cover. Title and device in gilt on spine; prospectus for publication laid in.
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