House of Windsor
Collection of books including inscribed presentation copies from the royal family
£378
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
Buxton, John. A Marriage Song for Princess Elizabeth. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1947. 8vo, inscribed and signed by Queen Elizabeth [later the Queen Mother]: “For Arthur from Elizabeth R Xmas 1947”, original marbled covers;
Idem. Another 2 copies, unsigned, 8vo in original marbled covers;
Warwick, Christopher. Princess Margaret. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983. First edition, 8vo, signed and inscribed “with love” from [Princess] Margaret";
Shawcross, William. The Queen Mother. The Official Biography. London: Macmillan, 2009. 8vo, signed and inscribed by the author “to Prue”;
Idem. Another copy, the first American edition, also signed and inscribed by the author;
Idem. Counting One's Blessings. The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. London: Macmillan, 2012. First edition, 8vo, signed and inscribed from the author;
Armstrong-Jones, Antony, Lord Snowdon. Assignments. Zurich, 1972. Oblong 8vo, signed with a detailed and heartfelt inscription from Lord Snowdon;
Idem. A View of Venice. Zurich, 1972. Oblong 8vo, signed and inscribed by Lord Snowdon;
Mitford, Nancy. The Letters of Nancy Mitford. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1993. 8vo, signed “love from Nancy”;
The Form and Order of the service that is to be performed and of the Ceremonies that are to be observed in The Coronation of their Majesties King George V and Queen Mary, June 1911, original cloth gilt;
The Form and Order of the service that is to be performed and of the Ceremonies that are to be observed in The Coronation of their Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, 1937, original Japanese vellum gilt; another copy in red cloth gilt;
and 9 others, including a finely bound three-volume set of the letters of Queen Victoria (21)
Provenance
Selected items from the estate of the late Lady Penn.