Royalty - Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone's Copy, The Ro...

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£160

Royalty - Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone's Copy, The Royal Victorian Order: The Form and Order of the Service [...], [London]: Harrison and Sons, Ltd., Printers to His Majesty the King, 1946, [16]pp, contemporary blue morocco, the upper-cover blocked in silver with a representation of the order, blue silk endpapers, original wrappers loosely-inserted within the folio, 4to, [1]

Provenance: Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone VA, GCVO, GBE (1883-1981), the last surviving grandchild of Queen Victoria, and the longest-lived Princess of the Blood Royal; the wrapper cover later inscribed in pencil by a former owner, "From the Library of HRH Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone".