Antique Queen Victoria Book Illustrated Pictorial Cloth 1887
Antique Queen Victoria Book Illustrated Pictorial Cloth 1887
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Laura Valentine wrote this for the crowd buying keepsakes in Victoria's Golden Jubilee year, and Frederick Warne dressed it accordingly. The front board carries a castle above a river blocked in dark brown, reeds in the foreground, the title picked out in blue green. One hundred engravings run through the text, portraits and royal residences and ceremonial scenes. What I like most sits on the endpaper. Someone gave this to Harry Webb for his birthday in July 1887, from his sister, and the shop label from a stationer on Kilburn High Road is still pasted in the back. The book has been read and it looks it.
The cloth is intact with even darkening across both boards and rubbing to the corners and spine ends. The blocking on the front board remains crisp and fully legible, as does the spine lettering. Edges of the text block are worn and foxed. Foxing and age toning run through the text and plates in the way you expect from a commercial book of this date, heavier at the front and rear, lighter through the middle. The presentation inscription is in period ink and fully legible. The bookseller's label is present and clean. Text block is complete with all one hundred illustrations. A good honest copy that shows its age rather than hiding it.
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