Victoria (Queen) | A charming presentation copy with important provenance

Property from the Workman Collection

Victoria (Queen)

More Leaves from the Journal of a Life in the Highlands, from 1862 to 1882. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1884

Large 8vo (206 x 141 mm). Portrait frontispiece, numerous plates; slight toning to text leaves. Original dark green cloth, bound by Burn & Co with binder's ticket to lower pastedown, cover lettered and pictorially printed in gilt, spine gilt-lettered, patterned endpapers, inscribed by Queen Victoria on the front free endpaper; lower joint cracked. Housed in custom green morocco and cloth-covered clamshell case. 

Presentation copy of the fourth edition, inscribed: "To Freda Biddulph from VRI. June 29 1884."

Mary Frederica "Freda" Biddulph was the wife of Thomas Myddelton Biddulph, a British Army officer and courtier. On 16 July 1851, he was appointed Master of the Household to Queen Victoria. On 16 February 1857, Biddulph married Mary Frederica Seymour, who was one of the Queen's maids of honor, and the only daughter of Frederick Charles William Seymour. Mary Frederica later served as an honorary Woman of the Bedchamber to the Queen, and as a Lady-in-waiting to her daughter Princess Henry of Battenberg.

PROVENANCE:

Mary Frederica Seymour Biddulph (presentation inscription)