The text is set in Dutch Type Library Fleishmann and is printed letterpress by Robert LoMascolo in Aurora, New York on a hand-fed Vandercook Cylinder press. Wells is limited to two hundred & seventy-six copies, and is presented in two states: Lettered and Numbered. This edition of The Invisible Man by H.G. Additionally, each book includes special curated bonus material to create a truly unique set of these beloved novels. The author’s ability to, as historian John Higgs notes “create wholly original stories out of thin air” culminated in a three-year span in which he published three of his most influential works what Wells referred to as “scientific romance novels.” The Time Machine, followed by The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds are editions uniquely crafted and designed to breathe new life into some of the greatest stories ever told. The Invisible Man is the second in a three-book set of H.G. “And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man-the mystery, the power, the freedom. The Invisible Man is as insightful as it is disturbing, exploring the question of morality when one is free to do as they please without risk of being caught. Freed from the constraints of physicality and rejected by a society that fears him, Griffin descends into madness, violence, and brutality. The stranger is Griffin, a scientist who has discovered the secret to invisibility, but cannot find a way to reverse it. The story begins on a bitter winter evening, when a mysterious stranger arrives in the remote English village of Iping, his face swaddled in bandages. Wells as the grandfather of science-fiction literature. Originally serialized in Pearson’s Weekly in 1897, The Invisible Man arrived on the heels of The Time Machine and The Island of Doctor Moreau, serving to cement H.G. Wells as “a grotesque romance,” The Invisible Man remains as remarkable and relevant today as it was upon its publication over a hundred years ago.

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