1888 Rare Victorian Book - PRINCE LITTLE BOY & Other Tales Out of FAIRY-LAND by Silas Weir Mitchell. 1stED.
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Author: S.Weir Mitchell, M.D.
Title: Prince Little Boy & Other Tales Out of Fairy-Land.
Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1888. First edition.
Language: Text in English.
Size: 8 " X 6 ".
Pages: ix-157 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good original decorated cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content : Very good content (tight and clean, rare light foxing and staining - as shown, beautiful ex-libris of a previous owner on the first endpaper).
Illustrations: Complete with 11 full-page illustrations and some other in-text illustrations.
The book: Attractive and nice Frist edition of Prince Little Boy & Other Tales Out of Fairy-Land. Gathers together ten fairy tales for children, one of which Mrs. Grabem and Fuz-Buz strings five tales together inside the concept of a fly caught in the spider's web but granted a reprieve as long as he can tell stories to the infant spiders. Others include Wogo, Prince Lazy Boots & peck of Troubles, Real Magic, Curly Fish, Old Wine New Bottle.
The author: Silas Weir Mitchell (February 15, 1829 – January 4, 1914) was an American physician, scientist, novelist, and poet. He is considered the father of medical neurology, and he discovered causalgia (complex regional pain syndrome) and erythromelalgia, and pioneered the rest cure. In 1866, he published a short story in the Atlantic Monthly resting upon both somatic and psychological insights entitled The Case of George Dedlow. From that point onward, Mitchell divided his attention between scientific and literary pursuits.