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Author Name:   Martin, Sir Theodore

Title:    The Life of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort

Binding:   Cloth
Book Condition:   Good
Jacket Condition:   No Jacket
Edition:   First Thus
Size:   8.5 x 12.5"
Publisher:   London Smith, Elder & Co 1882

Seller ID:   001676

436pp inc appendices, and engraved frontis of Prince Albert, plus 16pp index. This volume is a publisher-bound copy of five-issue partworks set. The life and times of Queen Victoria's consort, Prince Albert. People's edition, ie printed on cheap paper by Spottiswood & Co. at sixpence for each of the five parts, Each part is sewn into spine as a folio with all sheets together as one. Covers (brown cloth with black titles and frame to front and gilt title to spine) is in Good condition with edgewear and bumped corners and soiling. Inside hinges starting to split. Pages foxed and some soiling throughout. Original owner's signature on FEP and title page of each section, otherwise clean and tight.

Victoriana, Royalty, History, Biography, Prince Albert, Queen Victoria, England

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