London: Lockwood & Co., 1864. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1] 2-204, inserted lithographed frontispiece, original decorated green pebbled cloth, front and rear panels stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, cream coated endpapers. First edition. This proto-science fiction story "depicts its protagonists' discovery of an antigravity device which they use to fly to the moon, where they find a utopia inhabited by 'amnesiac reincarnations of select Earthmen.'" - Clute and Nicholls (eds), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, p. 1242. "Certainly the most significant SF novel between Shelley and the 1870s, it influenced both Verne and Wells." - Suvin, Victorian Science Fiction in the UK, pp. 12-13. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 1-1; (1981) 1-3; and (2004) II-1141. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy Volume II, p. 5. Locke, Voyages in Space 11. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 56. Bleiler (1978), p. 6. Reginald 07237].