Prince Sapolio
Subtitle: or, the heir, the houri, and the height-day clock. An operatic burlesque in three acts. [manuscript]
By: Book by John Reginald Blake and Randolph Thomas. ; Music by Sherman Fowler
Published: 1897
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Notes: Original typescript with red ink underscoring throughout.

Pagination varies.

Full red crushed morocco binding by Stikeman, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.

Operatic burlesque with comic banter and patter songs in the style of Gilbert and Sullivan.

Inscribed to Mrs. Sherman Fowler (wife of the composer) by Benjamin Aymar; inscribed [to Mrs. Sherman Fowler], with manuscript quotations from the work, by John Reginald Blake and Benjamin Aymar, New York, May 7, 1897.

John Reginald Blake and Benjamin Aymar were 1892 graduates of Columbia Law School; they were the librettists of other burlesques produced by the Columbia College Strollers in 1893.

Sherman Fowler was a student at the National University Law School, class of 1898.

"The comedians of Columbia. College boys in burlesque at the Irving Palace Theatre" in New York times, May 9, 1893.