Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Marianne North, J. M. W. Turner and John Martin. Two scientists invent a food that makes things grow, it escapes the laboratory, and England has to deal with forty-foot children who did not ask to be made. Wells starts in farce and ends somewhere much stranger. This edition is bound with a gallery of 58 plates, paintings by George Clausen, Marianne North and Cecil Gordon Lawson among others, dating from 1812 to 1922.