QUEEN VICTORIA
QUEEN VICTORIA
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Details
- 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
- True
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.
