QUEEN VICTORIA

Boussod, Valadon & Co., 1897

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Year of publication

1897

Place of printing

London and Paris

Author

[Queen Victoria], Holmes

Publishers

Boussod, Valadon & Co.

Edition

FIRST EDITION ILLUSTRATED BEAUTIFULLY WITH FINE ENGRAVED PLATES

First edition

Yes

Description

First Edition. Illustrated throughout with forty fine full page engravings printed by Boussod in Paris, the text-block printed by Virtue in London, frontispiece in gilt and vibrant colours, original wrappers printed in red and black are bound in. Folio, (320 x 260 mm.), Very handsomely bound in three-quarter red morocco over red feathered-marble paper covered boards, the spine with elaborate gilt tooling in an overall design arabesque in style, lettered in gilt within a black morocco label, gilt rolled tooling to the joins of the covers, marbled endleaves, top edge gilt. ii, 200, [1 colophon printed in red and black] pp. A fine copy with very little evidence of age or use, very well preserved, the plates and guards and text-block all in fine condition.