[CHESNEY, GEORGE TOMKYNS]. The Battle of Dorking. 8vo, original purple pictorial wrappers, front cover faded, head and foot of backstrip chipped; 8 pages publisher's advertisements at end; folding cloth portfolio. first edition. "The first significant British imaginary war story and also the finest and most influential example of the subgenre" (Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years, 412). Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1871