Signed book: The Life of His Royal Highness The Prince Consort, Vol. III, by Theodore Martin. First edition. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1877. Hardcover with leather royal presentation jacket, gilt-stamped "From V. R.," 6 x 9, 531 pages. Signed and inscribed on the first free end page in dark ink, "To Mrs. Tyler, from V. R & I—Christmas 1877." Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: VG/G, with paper splitting at front hinge, and some losses, splits, and sunning to the rare leather presentation jacket. Accompanied by a contemporary manuscript copy of the poem "The Queen's Book," as published in the Victorian satirical magazine Punch in 1868, loosely laid into the front of the book.
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