Preface, index. Color frontispiece portrait of the Queen at four years of age. Black and white illustrations throughout text. Signed binding by Don Etherington, half leather, cloth boards, which he completed for his mother at the age of 19. Title and author gilt-stamped, with five gilt-stamped raised bands, on spine. In cloth clamshell box with leather spine label. A biography of Queen Victoria and the events of her reign. Light soiling on title.