PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD [STUART] BY ANDREW LANG 1900 FINE BINDING

[LANG, ANDREW]. Prince Charles Edward. London: Goupil & Co., 1900.

First edition. Limited edition no. 1165 of 1500 copies - stated to limitation page. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Folio (330 x 250 x 60 mm.), pp. (6), vii, (1), 300, (1) + plates with captioned tissue-guards outside the pagination. Bound in contemporary full vellum. Smooth spine with leather title-plates and lettering in gilt. Beveled board edges. Top edge gilt, other edges uneven. Hand-marbled endpapers. Half-title page present, limitation page to verso. Title-page printed in red and black with printers device. With 48 superb full-page plates including a hand-coloured half portrait frontispiece. Elaborate chapter head- and tail-pieces. Decorative initials. Contents page to rear. Printing and engraving by Manzi, Joyant & Co. at Asnieres-sur-Seine near Paris. Provenance: Armorial bookplate of Charles Cunliffe Brookes to front pastedown. Condition: NEAR FINE. Binding tight and secure the hinges perfectly intact. A few small brown spots to lower board. Contents fine throughout. An exquisite example.

Notes: Renown biography of Bonnie Prince Charlie (1720-88).