iv, 128 pages. Engraved portrait frontispiece, 'Victoria' engraved by J. Brain. Printed by Stevens and Pardon, Bell Yard, Temple Bar. Includes two poems: "May the young queen be happy" by Thomas Haynes Bayley, Esq, (pages 126-27); and an untitled poem by Rev. J. Sutcliff (pages 127-28). Uniformly but mildly age-toned pages. Miniature bookseller's green printed label on front paste-down endpaper for parry & Son, Chester. All edges gilt. Original pale yellow endpapers. Near contemporary ink inscription on verso of front free endpaper, dated 1869. Provenance: Mary Ellen Benson. 60 x 72 mm. Publisher's burgundy straight-grained morocco. Upper cover with gilt stamped imperial crown within wreath of national flower emblems (thistle, roses, and clovers), above scroll with 'THE QUEEN'. Spine slightly faded. Some minuscule chips and wear to some edges. Gumuchian, 4136. Welsh, 5910. Not in Bondy, nor Spielmann. OCLC, 22010447. WorldCat locates seven copies worldwide (Victoria & Albert Museum, Oxford, Harvard, Virginia, Houston, Brigham, and San Diego University Libraries). Not in the British Library.








