GEORGE V

(1865-1936, King of Great Britain), and his Queen  MARY  (of Teck, 1867-1953) Album of 76 excellent unsigned Press Photographs, laid down, with one  signed by Queen Mary 

nearly all with their original typewritten descriptions, several include other members of the Royalfamily, they include the King and Queen driving through London to celebrate their Silver Jubilee at St Paul’s, the scenes at Buckingham Palace, with subsequent drives to the East End, North and West London, and the Jubilee Army Review at Aldershot (37 photos on 11 sides), others were taken for the weddings of the Duchess of Kent and the Duchess of Gloucester, openings of Parliament, Ascot and Epsom, the Prince of Wales at Mildenhall inspecting the ‘Comet’ aeroplane, there are attractive pictures of the Royal Box during Concerts at the Albert Hall taken from a neighbouring box, and other occasions such as the Chelsea Flower Show, Wimbledon, the launching of the ‘Queen Mary’, the Duke and Duchess of York at the St Andrew’s Eve Ball at Grosvenor House, and Armistice Day, cloth boards, 22 sides 9½” x 12¾”, a few undated, the others 10th November 1931 - 11th November 1935, On side 20 a charming picture of the Queen seen through a carriage window is  signed by her ‘Mary 1933’.  Inside the back cover is a  snapshot of Princess Elizabeth,  2¾” x 1¾”, apparently by the owner of the album, identified as “at Bognor 1929”, she is looking directly at the camera, and wears a woollen cardigan and leggings, behind her is a large sandcastle with trees in the background (small portion of image defective in bottom left corner). The ‘look’ in her face already recalls the present Queen.

• GBP 275.00 > otras divisas
• nº de pedido: 53565

• librero: Sophie Dupré (GREAT BRITAIN)