ALBERT PRINCE-CONSORT OF ENGLAND. The Principal Speeches and Addresses of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, London: John Murray, 1862, 8°, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY FROM QUEEN VICTORIA TO PRINCE ARTHUR, engraved portrait frontispiece (heavy spotting to portrait and offsetting to title), publisher's presentation binding of cream cloth blocked in gilt with the name "Albert" and his coat-of-arms to front cover (slightly soiled, spotted, extremities rubbed), t. e. g.

Prince Albert had died on the 14th December, 1861, and Queen Victoria's inscription to her son on the front blank bears the date of the first anniversary of his death: "Let this picture of your great and beloved Father be ever before your eyes -- treasure up every Word he has spoken & try to be as like him as you can"; her remarks are signed "your ... broken-hearted Mama, Victoria, Windsor Castle, Dec: 14, 1862." Prince Arthur was born on May 1st, 1850, so was then 12 years old. The volume also contains a small watercolour design of a guards officer (uninscribed), and a home-made bookmark with inscription "To dearest Arthur from his most affectionate brother, Leopold, May 1st 1864."