THE PERPLEXED PRINCE. by S. T.: - 1682

FIRST EDITION circa 1682, date taken from Wing, STC. Small book, 12mo, approximately 140 x 70 mm, 5½ x 3 inches, printer's device to title page, pages: [12], 1-130, lacking last blank page, collation: A6, B-F¹², G6 (-G6). includes: Dedication to William Lord Russel and To the Reader. Modern calf spine, gilt lettered label, gilt rules and blind decoration to spine, earlier marbled boards with leather corners, endpapers replaced at sometime, engraved bookplate to first pastedown. Corners slightly worn at tips, slight scribble and age-browning to title page, paper flaw to outer margin of pages 33 & 34 affecting several words (see attached image), 2 leaves closely shaved at outer edge affecting a few letters, but easily understood, small hole to top margin of page 29 and lower margin of page 95, no loss of text, light underlining on page 3, old ink name and a little scribble to verso title page, 6 old ink capital letters to top margin of following page, finis in old ink on last page, neat ink note on first blank endpaper, occasional small spot and stain, otherwise a good copy. The story of the fictionalised country of Otenia and the plotting of the religious faction known as the Gregorians against Good King Conradus, ESTC R223993; Wing Short-Title Catalogue, Volume 3, page 169, No. 174; W. C. Hazlitt, Bibliographical Collections and Notes, Series Three, page 308, under S.,T. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.