COLLINS, Wilkie.

£1,750 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Heart and Science. First edition, scarce in the original cloth. Collins wrote this impassioned anti-vivisection novel in a frenzy, according to him while "one part sane and three parts mad". Set in the closing years of the "weary old nineteenth century" (p. 1), it reflects his anxieties over the friction he perceived between human empathy and scientific progress.

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