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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Limited Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 4to.pp.199. From the Library of HRH The Duke of Gloucester; purchased by ourselves from Kensington Palace. Presentation copy to HRH The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester: inscription by hand in calligraphic script "In memory of the August visit of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester t the Chief Guild of St. Sebastian at Bruges on the 13th of October 1992. The Captain General" Signed by the Captain General. BOOK:Limited edition of 550. Copious colour and b/w photographs of portraits, artefacts, and maps associated with the Guild of St. Sebastian, Bruges. In Flemish, with the Author's Preface translated to English and French. Original publisher's cloth binding in red with armorial crest in gilt. Dust jacket design shows an illustration of the church of St. Sebastian. /Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester(b.1944) is the second son of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, and the youngest of the nine grandchildren of George V and Queen Mary. He is currently 31st in line of succession to the British throne. At the time of his birth, he was 5th in line to the throne, behind his first cousins Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) and Princess Margaret, his father, and his elder brother Prince William of Gloucester.He practised as an architect until the death of his elder brother placed him in direct line to inherit his father's dukedom of Gloucester, which he assumed in 1974. He married Birgitte van Deurs Henriksen in July 1972. /Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester, was born Birgitte Eva van Deurs Henriksen in Odense, Denmark, 1946. She is the younger daughter of Asger Preben Wissing Henriksen, a lawyer, and his wife, Vivian van Deurs. She was educated in Odense and Cambridge where she me her husband. Very good indeed in very good indeed dust jacket. Signedes.