V. R. I. Her Life and Empire by Lorne, Marquis of

Harmsworth Ltd, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 396 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with decorations. Black and white illustrations throughout with colour frontispiece. Includes cabinet card of Queen Victoria (Diamond Jubilee portrait) by W & D Downey loosely enclosed. Medium cracking to hinges and gutters, with exposed netting, pages remain attached. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Creasing to some pages. Tears to some pages, text remains unaffected. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Staining to both boards.

Eyre & Spottiswoode. Good. Eyre & Spottiswoode 1901 xii 395pp frontis plates half leather hardback, binding rubbed and marked, corners worn, front board slightly loose, endpapers discoloured with some loss on bottom corner, text and images bright and clean, a good copy

London: Harmsworth Bros Ltd, 1901. Leather. Good. 13" by 10". Not Stated. A detailed and illustrated exploration into the life and reign of Queen Victoria. Copiously illustrated throughout, with many photographic plates and decorative bordering. Featuring two coloured frontispieces which both depict Queen Victoria at different times in her life. John George Edward Henry Douglas Sutherland Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, usually better known by the courtesy title Marquess of Lorne, by which he was known between 1847 and 1900, was a British nobleman and was the fourth Governor General of Canada from 1878 to 1883. He is now remembered primarily for the place names bestowed on Canadian geography in honour of his wife and for his metrical paraphrase of Psalm 121, "Unto the hills around do I lift up". Rebound in a straight grain morocco binding. Externally, a trifle rubbed, with some wear to the extremities and spine label. Slight evidence of past worming to the front board. Internally, firmly… Read More

London: Harmsworth Bros,, 1901. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 33 cm x 25.5 cm xii - 396 pp, coloured frontis and title page illustrated throughout in b/w from photographs etc, The contents clean and tight with no inscriptions or marks. Bound in 1/2 dark green morocco gilt tooling to the spine, the biding clean and tight with no splits chips. A heavy book postage may be greater than ABE quote.