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Good, 1st Edition. Royal 8vo. 251pp. Coloured genealogical table endpapers, many illustrations from photographs, paintings, drawings and manuscript. Very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, small discreet ownership inscription to half-title, small discreet attractive red ideogram stamp to title page, no further ownership signs, light sporadic foxing limited to fore-edges and first and final leaf, not otherwise intruding or detracting. Bound in silver lettered black cloth gently rubbed to spine, together with price clipped original dustwrapper housed and protected in non-removable transparent wrapper by previous owner.
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