LOVELY ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF QUEEN ANNE, HANDSOMELY BOUND BY TRUSLOVE AND HANSON

(QUEEN ANNE) PAUL, Herbert. Queen Anne. Paris: Goupil, 1906. Large quarto, contemporary three-quarter red morocco, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut. $1250.

Limited edition of this illustrated biography of Queen Anne, number 88 of only 800 copies printed on fine paper, with 39 tissue-guarded engraved portraits, including full-color frontispiece portrait, handsomely bound by Truslove and Hanson.

This is the life story of Queen Anne, Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland beginning in 1702, who was Queen when the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under the Acts of Union, united as a single sovereign state known as Great Britain on May 1, 1707. She continued to reign as Queen of Great Britain and Ireland until her death in 1714. "The last of the Stuarts succeeded in overcoming the demands of being a woman on the throne, together with protracted ill health [likely Antiphospholipid Syndrome], to impose her views on the great men of the day, to preserve the protestant constitution, and to provide a real sense of ease for her country and friends" (DNB). With title page printed in red and black. Early gift inscription.

Scattered foxing to text, plates quite clean; light rubbing to boards of handsome binding. A lovely copy.