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PYNE, W. H.
The History of the Royal Residences.
Of Windsor Castle, St. James's Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, Buckingham House, and Frogmore. Illustrated by One Hundred Highly Finished and Coloured Engravings, fac-Similes of Original Drawings by the Most Eminent Artists. In Three Volumes.
First edition of the finest contemporary record of the royal residences in a splendid series of aquatints. This set with the bookplates of Sidney Herbert Lord Elphinstone.
3 volumes, folio (332 × 270 mm). Contemporary red half calf, spines gilt in compartments, marbled sides, yellow edges. 2 colour engraved frontispieces and 98 plates. Spines faded, bumps to top corners of volumes I and II endpapers tanned and foxed, light offsetting from plates. An excellent set.
