Eric, Prince of Lorlonia, or The Valley of Wishes: A Fairy Tale of the Days of Chivalry
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Overview:
- Title: Eric, Prince of Lorlonia, or The Valley of Wishes: A Fairy Tale of the Days of Chivalry
- Author: The Countess of Jersey
- Year: 1895
- Publisher: Macmillan and Co.
- Price: 6/-
- Pages: 182
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: Eric, Prince of Lorlonia, or The Valley of Wishes: A Fairy Tale of the Days of Chivalry
- Notes:
- 1st ed., perhaps a single UK/US printing ISFDB publisher "Macmillan and Co." represents Macmillan publications as distributed in the UK.
- Baldwin Library of of Historical Children's Literature provides full view of one copy with original covers and spine (distributed in the US presumably): Cover illustration matches that of the plate facing p172, or page "172a" at Baldwin. Title page: -- displays full title on six lines, unpunctuated -- credits artist Alice B. Woodward as "Alice R." -- gives these publication data (quote four lines): London MACMILLAN AND CO. and new york 1895 List of Illustrations lists 8 (frontispiece and 7 plates not included in the pagination) and there are no other illustrations.
- Publication date is inferred from listings 1895-10-19, in The Athenaeum "List of New Books" and The Spectator "Publications of the Week", and 1895-10-26, advertisement "Macmillan & Co.'s New Books" in multiple weeklies.
- Price is from the sources. The notices specify cloth and the publisher specifies Extra crown octavo (size).
- Woodward's middle initial is "B." in announcements for the publishing season, 1895-08-31 The Academy and The Athenaeum, presumably prepared by Macmillan, but mis-spelled in the -10-26 advertisement, "With Illustrations by Alice R. Woodward."
- The title leaf viewed at Baldwin Library (linked above), and the cover, may be specific to copies produced for US distribution. T.p. verso shows printer statement only, "Richard Clay and Sons, Limited, London and Bungay." (Printed in England, that is.)