Published by the Folio Society, London, 2012.
 
First Folio Edition.
 
The book is in like new condition, published with decorated brown cloth covered boards with gilt title. Introduced by Sarah Hall and colour illustrations by Caspar David Friedrich. The book sits within its slipcase, which is also in excellent condition. 
 
The Last Man is one of the first pieces of dystopian fiction published, first published in 1826. The narrative concerns Europe in the late 21st century, ravaged by the rise of a bubonic plague pandemic that rapidly sweeps across the entire globe, ultimately resulting in the near-extinction of humanity. It also includes discussion of the British state as a republic, for which Shelley sat in meetings of the House of Commons to gain insight to the governmental system of the Romantic era. 
 
The novel includes many fictive allusions to her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, who drowned in a shipwreck four years before the book's publication, as well as their close friend Lord Byron, who had died two years previously.