[AUTOGRAPHS & MANUSCRIPTS] VICTORIA, QUEEN OF ENGLAND leaves from the journal of our life in the highlands... London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1868. Second edition. Edited by Arthur Helps. 8vo. Presentation copy to Lady Charlotte Locker, inscribed, dated "April 1868," and signed in ink on front blank by Victoria. With two engraved plates of views, including frontispiece. Book-plate of Frederick Locker on front paste-down. Original gilt paneled and pictorial green pebbled cloth, gilt-lettered spine, by Burn & Co. Slightly scuffed; hinges starting to separate, some damp wrinkling to text, scattered light foxing to same, partly unopened, otherwise generally clean. Ex-library with book-plate on front paste-down and call number in pencil on front paste-down and title-page. See Rowfant Library catalogue of Locker's books for this copy. Frederick Locker-Lampson, bibliophile and friend of prominent Victorian literary figures such as Brownings, Dickens, Eliot, Tennyson, as well as a mentor to author and illustrator Kate Greenaway. PROVENANCE: The Collection of Ambassador and Mrs. Alexander Weddell, Richmond, Virginia. Deaccessioned by The Virginia House Museum to benefit future preservation, acquisitions, and care of collections.