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

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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