VICTORIA, QUEEN OF ENGLAND


Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, from 1848 to 1861, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed "For dear Elizabeth Argyll, in recollection of our visit to Inverary in 1847 from Victoria R, Jun: 10. 1868" on front free endpaper, Smith, Elder, 1868; More Leaves from the Journal of a Life in the Highlands, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed "To the Duke of Argyll from his affectionate Victoria R, Dec: 28, 1883" on front free endpaper, Printed for Strictly Private Circulation, 1883, FIRST EDITIONS, engraved frontispieces, several illustrations in the text, publisher's green pictorial cloth gilt, extremities of spines slightly frayed but generally very fresh, 8vo (2)
|PRESENTATION COPIES OF QUEEN VICTORIA'S HIGHLAND JOURNALS INSCRIBED TO THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF ARGYLL.In Leaves from a Journal Queen Victoria recorded her arrival at Inverary Castle on 18 August 1847, wrote "Our reception was in the true Highland fashion. The Duke and Duchess of Argyll (dear Lady Elizabeth Leveson Gower)... received us at the landing-place, which was all ornamented with heather... we got into a carriage with the two Duchesses... and took a beautiful drive amongst the magnificent trees, and along a glen...". Elizabeth (1824-1878) was for many years Mistress of the Robes to Queen Victoria, and it was during a visit with her to Taymouth Castle in 1842 that she met her future husband George Douglas Campbell, Marquess of Lorne, the future Duke of Argyll.Provenance: Major J.R. Abbey, bookplates (dated 1933).