The Napoleon of Notting Hill

John Lane, The Bodley Head. CHESTERTON, Gilbert K. (G.K.) The Napoleon of Notting Hill. London & New York: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1904. First edition. 301 pp.; [2] pp. advertisements. With eight full-page illustrations by W. Graham Robertson, including the full-page map of the Seat of War. Publisher's decorative pictorial cloth in grey, black, and orange; top edge stained green. General soiling and rubbing to cloth, wear to extremities; inner hinges secure. A sound, very good copy of Chesterton's first novel. Set in a future London of 1984,  the novel imagines an uprising in Notting Hill.  It is Chesterton's alternative reality novel and is recognised for its influence on later dystopian writing. The illustrations by W. Graham Robertson - artist, designer, and friend of the Pre-Raphaelites - lend the novel a dramatic quality, with 8 monochrome full page illustrations.  Issued in two variant pictorial bindings (including the present black blocked design). No priority is established with both appearing to have been issued at the same time. A superb early Chesterton title. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1904.