WELLS, H.G. (1866-1946). The Time Machine... Popular edition . London: William Heinemann, 1905. 8° (168 x 105mm). (Half-title slightly spotted and soiled.) Contemporary brown buckram with red morocco label (spine block twisted, corners a little rubbed). PRESENTATION COPY. Inscribed on half-title: 'To E. Nesbit from H.G. Wells & thank God for her'. With another inscription by Wells in the right hand margin of the famous paragraph about 'humanity upon the wane' (ch. VI, p. 50): 'N.B. [I] repudiate all this 1895 nonsense utterly H.G.W. 1905. I find on reading on that I did repudiate it then. See p. 54.' A self-caricature fills the opposite margin of the same page. Further self-caricatures occur on pp. 56 and 67, a raised finger pointing out an amendment to the headings of chapters VII and VIII.
WELLS, H.G. (1866-1946). The Time Machine... Popular edition . London: William Heinemann, 1905. 8° (168 x 105mm). (Half-title slightly spotted and soiled.) Contemporary brown buckram with red morocco label (spine block twisted, corners a little rubbed). PRESENTATION COPY. Inscribed on half-title: 'To E. Nesbit from H.G. Wells & thank God for her'. With another inscription by Wells in the right hand margin of the famous paragraph about 'humanity upon the wane' (ch. VI, p. 50): 'N.B. [I] repudiate all this 1895 nonsense utterly H.G.W. 1905. I find on reading on that I did repudiate it then. See p. 54.' A self-caricature fills the opposite margin of the same page. Further self-caricatures occur on pp. 56 and 67, a raised finger pointing out an amendment to the headings of chapters VII and VIII. PRESENTATION COPY TO EDITH NESBIT (1858-1924). After reading some of E. Nesbit's work, HG assumed she was a man and called her Ernest, 'a delusion which she always found flattering, and did her best to confirm by writing all first-person stories in the masculine character' (Moore, p. 182). The two met in 1902, HG arriving at the Bland home in Well Hall, Eltham, without an invitation. He was there in the summer of 1905, and again on 21 October that year, but after this their friendship waned. His intentions towards Nesbit's step-daughter, Rosamund, were regarded suspiciously, culminating in a major row when the pair were caught eloping on Paddington station. As Julia Briggs points out ( A Woman of Passion , 1987, p. 245), both authors remain linked through the theme of time travel, used by Nesbit in The Story of the Amulet (1906).
WELLS, H.G. (1866-1946). The Time Machine... Popular edition . London: William Heinemann, 1905. 8° (168 x 105mm). (Half-title slightly spotted and soiled.) Contemporary brown buckram with red morocco label (spine block twisted, corners a little rubbed). PRESENTATION COPY. Inscribed on half-title: 'To E. Nesbit from H.G. Wells & thank God for her'. With another inscription by Wells in the right hand margin of the famous paragraph about 'humanity upon the wane' (ch. VI, p. 50): 'N.B. [I] repudiate all this 1895 nonsense utterly H.G.W. 1905. I find on reading on that I did repudiate it then. See p. 54.' A self-caricature fills the opposite margin of the same page. Further self-caricatures occur on pp. 56 and 67, a raised finger pointing out an amendment to the headings of chapters VII and VIII.
WELLS, H.G. (1866-1946). The Time Machine... Popular edition . London: William Heinemann, 1905. 8° (168 x 105mm). (Half-title slightly spotted and soiled.) Contemporary brown buckram with red morocco label (spine block twisted, corners a little rubbed). PRESENTATION COPY. Inscribed on half-title: 'To E. Nesbit from H.G. Wells & thank God for her'. With another inscription by Wells in the right hand margin of the famous paragraph about 'humanity upon the wane' (ch. VI, p. 50): 'N.B. [I] repudiate all this 1895 nonsense utterly H.G.W. 1905. I find on reading on that I did repudiate it then. See p. 54.' A self-caricature fills the opposite margin of the same page. Further self-caricatures occur on pp. 56 and 67, a raised finger pointing out an amendment to the headings of chapters VII and VIII. PRESENTATION COPY TO EDITH NESBIT (1858-1924). After reading some of E. Nesbit's work, HG assumed she was a man and called her Ernest, 'a delusion which she always found flattering, and did her best to confirm by writing all first-person stories in the masculine character' (Moore, p. 182). The two met in 1902, HG arriving at the Bland home in Well Hall, Eltham, without an invitation. He was there in the summer of 1905, and again on 21 October that year, but after this their friendship waned. His intentions towards Nesbit's step-daughter, Rosamund, were regarded suspiciously, culminating in a major row when the pair were caught eloping on Paddington station. As Julia Briggs points out ( A Woman of Passion , 1987, p. 245), both authors remain linked through the theme of time travel, used by Nesbit in The Story of the Amulet (1906).
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