(#104449) PRINCE PRIGIO. Andrew Lang.

PRINCE PRIGIO. Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith ... London: Simkin, Marshall & Co., 1889. Small octavo, pp. [1-12] [1] 2-144 [145-148: ads], illustrations by Gordon Browne, original pictorial sea-green cloth, front panel stamped in red and gold, spine panel stamped in gold, floral patterned endpapers. First edition. A children's fantasy which concerns a prince who was "too clever." The first part of Lang's Pantouflia sequence, a moral tale set in a land-of-fable Britain, which was continued in PRINCE RICARDO OF PANTOUFLIA BEING THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE PRIGIO'S SON... (1893). Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 2-102. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), p. 559. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature V, p. 2293. Waggoner, The Hills of Faraway 539. Reginald 08593. Free endpapers a bit darkened with light offset on first and last leaves, else a fine copy. (#104449).

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