Books

300 pp. Hardcover, bound in gilt-tooled full blue morocco, all edges gilt, by Donnelly, Chicago (possibly the work of Alfred De Sauty, who was there 1923-1935), the front panel inset with a hand-painted miniature signed by Saintet. The text block with marginal tanning and some nicks to the fore-edge. The binding lightly rubbed with minor loss of gilt.

Prince Otto: A Romance is a novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1885. The novel was considered a departure from his previous works and explores the complex, intriguing life of Prince Otto of Grunewald, and his relationships, including that with his wife, Princess Seraphina. The book examines themes of love, power, and betrayal set in the fictional Germanic state of Grunewald.