Silver Jubilee Of Her Majesty The Queen 1952-1977. Official Souvenir Programm by British Royalty - 1977

An albumen paper photograph (44 × 29 mm), mounted on a piece of plain card (90 × 63 mm) loosely inserted by the corners in short diagonal slits in a leaf detached from an album. At the foot of the page is a six-line lament for the late Prince, signed and dated 'B. Ravenshaw. March 3rd 1862'; the verso of the leaf is blank. The top corners of the leaf are creased; the photograph and its mount are in fine condition. The following paragraph appeared in 'The Photographic News' (Volume IV, Number 104, 31 August 1860, page 215, sourced from 'The Athenaeum'): 'Photography At The Palace. Mr Mayall has put together, in a "Royal Album", the series of royal photographic portraits made by him from time to time at Buckingham Palace. These exquisite studies from the real life are fourteen in number: one of the Queen and Prince Consort, one of the Queen and Princess Beatrice, one of the Queen alone, one of the Prince alone, one of the Prince of Wales and Princess Alice, one of the Prince of Wales, one of Princess… Read More

London: The Illustrated London News, 1897. 12 color plates, 2 color ads. 1 vols. Folio. Blue cloth, gilt lettering on cover. Extremities slightly worn, backstrip darkened, else very good. 12 color plates, 2 color ads. 1 vols. Folio.

Approximately 50 × 30 mm, tiny corner tips snipped off before being mounted on a sheet of light blue paper (230 × 185 mm, removed from an album). All four have captions in ink written below them (Albert is 'Prince Concert'); they are evenly mounted on the page around a photograph (33 × 46 mm) of an engraving of the 'Great Exhibition, 1862'. The paper is lightly marked, with a short closed tear near the top left-hand corner; the photographs are in excellent condition. The following paragraph appeared in 'The Photographic News' (Volume IV, Number 104, 31 August 1860, page 215, sourced from 'The Athenaeum'): 'Photography At The Palace. Mr Mayall has put together, in a "Royal Album", the series of royal photographic portraits made by him from time to time at Buckingham Palace. These exquisite studies from the real life are fourteen in number: one of the Queen and Prince Consort, one of the Queen and Princess Beatrice, one of the Queen alone, one of the Prince alone, one of the Prince of Wales and… Read More

London: Ackermann and Co, 1839. 12 coloured lithograph plates and a colour lithograph additional title. 1 vols. Small folio. Red pebbled morocco, gilt stamped designs on covers, a.e.g. Scuffed, joints and hinges cracked, 2" portion from foot of spine lacking, but aside from only very minor foxing, very good internally. 12 coloured lithograph plates and a colour lithograph additional title. 1 vols. Small folio. Tooley 242

London: Printed by M. Jenour for John Nicholson and Robert Knaplock, 1707. Expanded edition. Leather bound. Very Good. 878pp. Folio [40 cm] Rebacked with a decorative gilt stamped leather spine. Decorative gilt stamped borders on the boards. Gilt turn-ins. Marbled text block edges and endpapers. New endbands. Title page, printed in red and black, professionally restored and backed. Periodic chapter head vignettes. Errata at rear. Ex-library (legitimately deaccessioned) with library numbers on front board, else no other library markings. Extremities moderately rubbed. Bottom fore-edge corner of rear board chipped, with small loss. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. A couple of marginal repairs. Pages very bright. ***Will require extra postage due to size and weight. With lovely copper-plate engravings. Some engravings attributed to Richard Gaywood. 40 single-page plates, 19 double-page plates, 1 folding plate. Numerous genealogical tables. Book I: The Norman Dynasty; Book II:… Read More