1886 King Solomon's Mines

Description

Decorative Binding, Early Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

The thirty-first thousand edition of this work. First published in 1885.

The first edition with the correction of the 'eclipse of the sun' to the 'eclipse of the moon'.

With printer's code 30.986 to base of page 320.

At the rear of the work is four pages of publisher's advertisements and sixteen pages listing Cassell & Company's other published works with codes 5 G 9.86 and 5 B 9.86. 

Illustrated map on page 27, but sadly missing fold-out colour map frontispiece. 

King Solomon's Mines is a thrilling adventure novel that tells the story of an expedition through an untrodden region of Africa. Sir Henry Rider Haggard was a British writer specialising in romantic adventure novels often set in exotic settings, predominantly Africa, and is considered the father of the 'lost world' literary genre. This work, in particular, is considered one of the earliest examples of the genre.