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Windsor Castle, Royal Library

Richard Rivington Holmes, Specimens of royal fine and historical bookbinding : selected from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle. 152 color-printed plates, London, W. Griggs & Sons, 1893, large fol., (occasional pale spots to contents) elaborately gilt publisher's red cloth, (light fading and bubbling to cloth at spine, bumping to lower corners and edges), brown endpapers gilt, (pencil annotation, creasing and a closed tear to front free endpaper), bookplate of Estelle Doheny (ex-Christie's, February 1, 1988, lot 386)

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