TRIPS TO THE MOON. By Lucian. From the Greek by Thomas Francklin, D.D., Sometime Greek Professor in the University of Cambridge

Lucian of Samosata

Published by Cassell & Company, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne, 1887

About this Item

Small octavo, pp. [1-5] 6-192, publisher's tan cloth stamped in black and gold, endpaper ads. First printing of this edition. Issued as part of "Cassell's National Library edited by Professor Henry Morley." Text follows a standard eighteenth century translation from the Greek by Thomas Francklin, first published in 1780. Collects Lucian's "Instructions for Writing History," "The True History," and "Icaro-Menippus" ("Above the Clouds"), with introduction by series editor Henry Morley. Lucian's "Vera Historia," dating from the 2nd century A.D., is the ". earliest surviving interplanetary romance; a satire in which a sailing ship's crew is carried by a whirlwind to an inhabited moon." - Locke, Voyages in Space 002. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1377. Nicolson, Voyages to the Moon, pp. 14-15. A very good copy. (#173209). Seller Inventory # 173209

Bibliographic Details

Title: TRIPS TO THE MOON. By Lucian. From the Greek...

Publisher: Cassell & Company, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne

Publication Date: 1887

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: 1st Edition