Author: Anthony Hope Hawkins
Title: The Heart of Princess Osra
Description: London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1896. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this scarce novel from British writer Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, with illustrations. First edition. Scarce. Illustrated with a frontispiece and eight plates. Collated complete. Part of the author's trilogy of books which spawned the genre of Ruritanian romance. This collection of linked short stories is a prequel: written immediately after the success of The Prisoner of Zenda, but is set in the 1730s, well over a century before the events of the first novel and its sequel, Rupert of Hentzau. The stories are set in the fictional country of Ruritania, a Germanic kingdom, and deal with the love life of Princess Osra of the House of Elphberg. Written by Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope, a British novelist and playwright who was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels. Illustrated by John Williamson, a British artist. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Light spotting to the first and last few pages with minor age toning to the endpapers. Previous owner's label to the front endpaper. Very Good . Ill.: John Williamson. Very Good .

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