The letters of Queen Victoria : a selection from Her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861 published by authority of His Majesty King Edward VII ; / edited by Arthur Christopher Benson and Viscount Esher.
Queen Victoria (1819-1901)
Category
Books
Date
1907
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3080989
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v. in 6 : ill., ports. ; 8vo. Extensively extra-illustrated copy, with extra portraits, autograph letters and other material. Shelved and uniform with continuation of set (1926, 1928). Pencil mark on verso of front free endpaper in all vols.: "71 C". Pencil numbers on rear free endpaper verso in v. 1 (pt. 1): "4097" (crossed through) and "12042". Loosely inserted in v. 1 (pt. 1): bookseller’s catalogue clipping, with price £115. Provenance: twentieth-century pictorial bookplate of Annie Cowdray [i.e.: Annie Pearson, Viscountess Cowdray (1860-1932)]. Pencil note on v. 1 (pt. 1) flyleaf: ‘Probably the finest copy in existence – enriched with autograph letters, portraits and views’. Binding: Twentieth-century full blue morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe; gilt fillets, spine, edges and elaborate inner border; marbled endpapers; binder’s monogram stamp S. T.
Makers and roles
Queen Victoria (1819-1901), author Arthur Christopher Benson (1862-1925), editor Reginald Baliol Brett, 2nd Viscount Esher (1852-1930)., editor