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1881 - A Birthday Book Designed by Princess Beatrice Deluxe Edition Full Leather
REF: ES1780 / LA376838
£400
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Description
A Birthday Book Designed by her Royal Highness the Princess Beatrice
Published by Smith Elder & Co, London 1881
Deluxe Edition
Hardback bound in a full red leather binding by the hatchards bindery of Piccadilly, marbled endpapers & gilt inner dentelles, complete copy with two coloured chromolithograph frontis plates + a coloured chromolithograph plate to the start of each month plus one further plate to rear [15 in total] page edges gilt, several pages from each month have names and dates written in hand with several names written to rear index pages {see image for example].
Book measures approx 11 x 9 inches
A scarce deluxe edition with fine illustrations and bound in a high quality full leather binding.
measurements
Height:
11 in
Width:
9 in
declaration
Elder Books & Collectables has clarified that the 1881 - A Birthday Book Designed by Princess Beatrice Deluxe Edition Full Leather (LA376838) is genuinely of the period declared with the date/period of manufacture being 1881
condition
Some minor marks & light rubbing to cover, occasional light foxing to pages or offsetting from plates, foxing heavier to endpapers, overall in lovely condition with no major faults & hinges strong.
additional info
Material:
Origin:
Date of Manufacture:
1881
location
This 1881 - A Birthday Book Designed by Princess Beatrice Deluxe Edition Full Leather is located in Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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