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Published by Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1868
Seller: Ed's Editions LLC, ABAA, West Columbia, SC, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1868 edition. Textured mauve cloth boards have faded spine and rubbing with color-loss in several areas on front and back. Binding is good. Pages are clean and unmarked, with light toning. 287 pages plus appendix. LO.
Published by Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1868
Seller: Westside Stories, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The Book Is Solid With A Sewn Binding. Foxing Present. Double Frontispiece With Tissue Protection Between. Title Page Has Small Corner Stain From Moisture But Not On Text. Brown Eps , No Gutter Cracking. Ffep Has Previous Owner's Name And Date Of 1879. Red Cloth Covered Boards With 'Victoria Rg' In Gilt On Front Board And Full Title On Spine In Gilt.The Boards Have Bevel Edge And The Front Bottom Corner Is Frayed. Very Slight Fraying To Spine Ends. Handling Discoloration Evident And A Line Of Small Holes Along Spine Gutter Which Could Be Insect Or Man Made? A Nice Solid 1St Edition Of This Book.
Published by 1868, 1868
Seller: Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB), Stockholm, Sweden
Pp. (xx), 316 with one engraved plate but frontispiece missing. Second edition. Second volume (More Leaves): Pp. xiv, 404 with 13 engraved plates (of which 8 portraits). Unopened copy. Both volumes in original green cloth, gilt. Top of back hinge splitting.
London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1868, format in-8°, (20 cm), xv pp + (5)nn pp + 315 pp, with a steel-engraved frontispiece (view of Balmoral). Bound in full green decorated morocco, all edges gilt, gilt fillets on both covers, silk headcaps, double fillets on the turn-ins.Bound by Burn (at Kirbystreet 37-38), a small printed label on the last fly leag. Binding and book in perfect condition. This copy with the autograph ex-dono of the queen to het cousin Clémentine d'Orléans. The dedication , in Victoria's hand, reads '' Pour ma chère Clémentine, de la part de sa dévouée Cousine VR (Victoria Regina), 28 Jan: 1868. Clémentine was the daughter of the last French king: Louis-Philppe ( 1773 - 1850) ; also called ''le roi bourgeois''. . She married in 1843 the German prince Auguste deSaxe-Cobourg-Gotha. Her husband was a first cousin of prince Albert, consort of Victoria. The book was published in 1868 and already at the end of January the queen had bound copies at her disposal to be send to members of the Royay Family and intimate friends as, according the editor's note, was the original purpose to write the book. The book became immensely popular and was printed in tens of thousand copies. This copy, with the interesting ex-dono autograph belongs to the very first edition and served the purpose (being send to relatives and intimate friends) as originally intended by the queen.