Erewhon or Over the Range.

[BUTLER, Samuel].

Item Number: 136234

London: Trubner & Co, 1872.

First edition of Butler’s classic work of satire, published anonymously. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth. In very good condition. Neat ownership inscription. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Uncommon.

A satire on Victorian society, Erewhon was first published anonymously by Samuel Butler in 1872. In a 1945 broadcast, George Orwell praised the book and said that when Butler wrote Erewhon it needed "imagination of a very high order to see that machinery could be dangerous as well as useful." He recommended the novel, though not its sequel, Erewhon Revisited.