Queen Victoria | Inscribed copy of a volume of poems, Songs of the Brave, 1856

Queen Victoria--Thomas Campbell, et al.

Songs of the Brave. The Soldier's Dream, and other Poems and Odes. London: Sampson Low, 1856

8vo, original green cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, edges gilt, inscribed by Queen Victoria ("To dear Mary from her very affectionate cousin & friend Victoria R Christmas 1856")

This volume of patriotic poems, published in the immediate aftermath of the Crimean War, was inscribed by the Queen to Princess Mary Adelaide, Duchess of Cambridge (1833-97).