The Lost Prince

Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by John Atkinson Grimshaw, Luke Fildes and Frederic Leighton. Marco Loristan and a crippled boy called The Rat are sent across Europe carrying a sign to the secret supporters of a lost dynasty, and are told nothing more than they need. Burnett wrote it during the Balkan wars, inventing the kingdom of Samavia out of the newspapers, and made the whol...