Guy Boothby — Doctor Nikola

London, Ward, Lock and Co. Limited, 1896. Cloth. A third edition of this popular novel from the Doctor Nikola series by Guy Boothby, with illustrations. Third edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, sixteen full-page plates and numerous vignette illustrations. Collated complete. A thrilling novel from the Doctor Nikola series about an occultist anti-hero seeking immortality and world domination. Doctor Nikola was a forerunner to Sax Rohmer's fictional villain Fu Manchu. Written by Guy Newell Boothby, a prolific Australian novelist and writer, noted for sensational fiction in variety magazines around the end of the nineteenth century. Illustrated by Stanley Llewellyn Wood, a prolific Welsh illustrator who travelled widely. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Minor splitting to the cloth at the board tips with light discolouration to the head and tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting. Minor age toning to the endpapers. Very Good . Ill.: Stanley L. Wood. Very Good .