Royal Interest - Signed & Dedicated Copy, The Book of the Qu...

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Royal Interest - Signed & Dedicated Copy, The Book of the Queen's Dolls' Houses, edited by A.C. Benson, C.V.O., and Sir Lawrence Weaver, K.B.E., With Ninety-Two Plates of Which Twenty-Four are in Colour, two-volume set, limited to 1500 copies, Methuen & Co. Ltd., By Permission of H.M. the Queen, London 1924, volume I endpaper signed and dedicated in ink autograph MS To Mark Seymour from Mary R, December 1937, the endpaper with an applied card inscribed [...] Mark Seymour, Buckingham Palace, S.W.1., from H.M. Queen Mary, teal boards with gilt-embossed cypher of Queen Mary [George V's consort], oatmeal cloth spines with paper title labels, volume II d/j only [volume I's defective and inserted], large 4to; Souvenir Book of The Queen's Dolls' House, floppy floppy 8vo; Stewart-Wilson (Mary), Queen Mary's Doll's House, Photographs by David Cripps, The Bodley Head, London 1988, h/b, d/j, oblong 8vo, [4] Provenance: The first two-volume set, Henry Spencer, Churchdale Hall, Ashford-in-the-Water, near Bakewell, Derbyshire, Lot 273, 4th May 1972.