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1. "Erewhon, or over the range" by Samuel Butler with woodcuts by Robert Gibbings - Jonathan Cape, London - 1923 first illustrated edition - 18cmx15cm - condition: good, some rubbing, complete with all woodcuts 

 2. "Erewhon, or over the range" by Samuel Butler - A.C. Fifield, London - 1913 new and revised edition - 15cmx13cm - condition: good, some rubbing to boards, minor page foxing

Erewhon: or, Over the Range (/ɛrɛhwɒn/[2]) is a novel by English writer Samuel Butler, first published anonymously in 1872,[3] set in a fictional country discovered and explored by the protagonist. The book is a satire on Victorian society.[4]

The first few chapters of the novel dealing with the discovery of Erewhon are in fact based on Butler's own experiences in New Zealand, where, as a young man, he worked as a sheep farmer on Mesopotamia Station for about four years (1860–64), and explored parts of the interior of the South Island and wrote about in his A First Year in Canterbury Settlement (1863).

The novel is one of the first to explore ideas of artificial intelligence, as influenced by Darwin's recently published On the Origin of Species (1859) and the machines developed out of the Industrial Revolution (late 18th to early 19th centuries). Specifically, it concerns itself, in the three-chapter "Book of the Machines", with the potentially dangerous ideas of machine consciousness and self-replicating machines.

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