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Publication: The Dreamer of Dreams

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  • Publication: The Dreamer of DreamsPublication Record # 270851
  • Author: The Queen of Roumania
  • Date: 1915-00-00
  • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
  • Price:
    6/-?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
  • Pages: 181+[6]
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: NOVEL
  • Cover: The Dreamer of Dreams by Edmund Dulac
  • 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.
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