TYTLER (PATRICK FRASER)Historical Notes on the Lennox or Darnley Jewel; the Property of the Queen, FIRST EDITION, [LIMITED TO 25 COPIES], chromolithographed frontispiece by Henry Shaw, publisher's blue watered silk, gilt tooling and floral decoration to covers and spine, g.e., 4to (255 x 205mm.), [William Nicoll, Shakespeare Press], 1843FootnotesRARE, ONE OF ONLY 25 COPIES PRINTED FOR QUEEN VICTORIA. The Darnley Jewel was purchased by the Queen from Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill collection in 1842. It is believed to have been originally commissioned by Lady Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox for her husband Matthew Stewart, Earl of Lennox and Regent of Scotland. Margaret was the mother of Lord Darnley, the second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots. The jewel remains to this day one of the most important early jewels in the Royal Collection. No copies traced at auction.
TYTLER (PATRICK FRASER)Historical Notes on the Lennox or Darnley Jewel; the Property of the Queen, FIRST EDITION, [LIMITED TO 25 COPIES], chromolithographed frontispiece by Henry Shaw, publisher's blue watered silk, gilt tooling and floral decoration to covers and spine, g.e., 4to (255 x 205mm.), [William Nicoll, Shakespeare Press], 1843FootnotesRARE, ONE OF ONLY 25 COPIES PRINTED FOR QUEEN VICTORIA. The Darnley Jewel was purchased by the Queen from Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill collection in 1842. It is believed to have been originally commissioned by Lady Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox for her husband Matthew Stewart, Earl of Lennox and Regent of Scotland. Margaret was the mother of Lord Darnley, the second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots. The jewel remains to this day one of the most important early jewels in the Royal Collection. No copies traced at auction.
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