HOLMES, Richard R. Queen Victoria, London & Paris: Boussod & Valadon, 1897, 4°, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece portrait, 24 enrgaved plates by Boussod and Valadon, numerous vignettes (occasional light marginal spotting), blue morocco by Zaehnsdorf, binding dated 1899, gilt floral border, gilt armorial of Queen Victoria to covers, spine gilt in compartments with red and cream morocco onlays, inner fillets, original wrappers bound in, t.e.g. With 19 other quarto volumes, most biographies of English and French monarchs, all morocco bound. (20)