The letters of Queen Victoria second series : a selection from Her Majesty's correspondence and journal between the years 1862 and 1878 published by authority of His Majesty the King / edited by George Earle Buckle ...
Queen Victoria (1819-1901)
Category
Books
Date
1926 - 1928
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3081057
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v. bound in 6, plates : ports. ; 8vo. Extensively extra-illustrated copy, with extra portraits, autograph letters and other material. Shelved and uniform with other volumes in set (1907). Pencil mark on verso of front free endpaper in all vols.: "71 C". Loosely inserted in v. 1 of set: 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 set’s v. 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 George Earle Buckle (1854-1935), editor