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Warren, Edward Perry.
The Prince Who Did Not Exist.
Publisher: Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York & London;
Date of Publication: 1900
Stock Code: 12757
First edition: Number 292 in a limited edition of 350 copies only. Octavo, pp. 26 printed in decorative black letter typeface throughout to single side of leaf in unopened pairs. 3 full-page illustrations by Arthur J. Gaskin. White quarter cloth with black titles to spine and grey paper-covered boards with black titles to open book vignette on upper board. Covers slightly surface soiled; number inscribed to head of title page in ink otherwise contents clean and crisp. A very good copy. A finely produced fairy tale. The illustrations are typical of the Arts and Crafts style of Arthur Joseph Gaskin, who produced woodcuts for William Morris’s Kelmscott Press, taught at Birmingham School of Art and made jewellery along with his wife Georgie. Necessarily rare. £150.00