The Dreamer of Dreams

Overview:

• Title: The Dreamer of Dreams
• Author: The Queen of Roumania
• Year: 1915
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Price: 6/-
• Pages: 181+[6]
• Binding: Hardcover
• Type: Novel
• Title Reference: The Dreamer of Dreams
• Notes:
  • The book is undated, but WorldCat lists it as [1915], implying their belief in that as a publication date. This date is verified by the dates of the reviews listed below.
  • 1st ed.; a Christmas gift book, but a break with the annual series from Dulac and Hodder & Stoughton, as an original story and having only 6 illustrations
  • The board cover has a somewhat abstract design of a sword. The dust jacket contains a copy of the frontispiece plate, pasted onto the jacket paper. We include both in the attached image.
  • Each plate is accompanied by a guard sheet on which is printed the caption for the plate. The plates are tipped onto tan pages printed with a frame for the plate. (The leaves are not included in the pagination.) These plates are the "+[6]" shown in our pagination count.
  • No price on the book. Price from reviews The Scotsman 1915-12-09 p2 (as by "Carmen Sylva", the preceding queen consort; very positive) and Manchester Guardian -12-14 p4 (brief, negative)
  • "Dedicated to my daughter Ileana" (Princess Ileana of Romania (1909–1991) per Wikipedia)
  • HathiTrust Digital Library (catalog record) shows another copy as by "the Queen of Rumania" aka "Carmen Sylva". Marie's mother-in-law Elisabeth, a well-known writer as Carmen Sylva, was Queen dowager in 1915.