Mesmer: Secrets of the Human Frame by Toni Dove
Limited edition artist's book. Fiction. Thomas Edison's friend Lord Ewald falls in love with a beautiful courtesan whom he considers to be the ideal of female beauty. He is shattered when she opens her mouth to speak and he discovers 'the soul of a bourgeois.' Edison takes pity on his friend and creates for him the perfect woman--an android. The construction of the android was inspired by Tomorrow's Eve, written by Villiers de l'Ilse-Adam in 1886.
Call Number: YRL Special Collections Oversize* ; * N7433.4.D74 M47 1993
Publication Date: 1993