The Gods of Pegāna

Overview:

  • Title: The Gods of Pegāna
  • Author: Lord Dunsany
  • Year: 1905
  • Publisher: Elkin Mathews
  • Price: 5/-
  • Pages: viii+94
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: The Gods of Pegāna
  • Notes:
    • First printing. No copyright date is given. Printer credit is "The Riverside Press Limited, Edinburgh".
    • The title page reads, in full: "THE GODS OF PEGĀNA / BY LORD DUNSANY / WITH ILLUSTRATIONS IN PHOTOGRAVURE BY S. H. SIME / LONDON / ELKIN MATHEWS, VIGO STREET / 1905"
    • Month of publication is from Joshi & Schweitzer's ''Lord Dunsany: A Bibliography'' (1993).
    • There is no table of contents.
    • "Pegāna" is printed with a macron everywhere except three places (presumably errors): The caption of the frontispiece, and the title headings of the first story and "The Deeds of Mung".
    • Artwork is printed on unnumbered plates. The page numbers given are for the page that the image faces. The frontispiece, "Pegāna", is facing the title page (iii).
    • Transient copy seen was without a dustjacket. Pale grey boards with cream fabric spine. Front imprinted with the title and a drawing based on a detail from Sidney H. Sime's illustration "The Dreams of Māna-Yood-Sushāī"