Journal of a Visit to Egypt, Constantinople, the Crimea, Greece, etc. in the Suite of the Prince and Princess of Wales.
GREY (Mrs. William).

Journal of a Visit to Egypt, Constantinople, the Crimea, Greece, etc. in the Suite of the Prince and Princess of Wales.

First public edition. 8vo. Original purple cloth, elaborately gilt; spine stained and sunned, cloth a little scuffed and dusty, otherwise good. Light foxing to opening and closing leaves, rest of interior clean and fresh. [viii], 203pp. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1869.

£450.00

Mrs. Grey accompanied the Prince and Princess of Wales on their Eastern tour in 1862. A privately printed version was issued in just three copies.

Scarce in commerce, with just two examples of the public edition located in auction records over the last fifty years: Sotheby’s, 1978 (GBP 75, inscribed by Queen Victoria to her daughter) and Sotheby’s, 2002 (GBP 597, the Atabey copy).

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