1st ed, 1st printing. 382pp (including bibliography). Decorations in text by B S Biro. Red cloth boards (very slightly rounded on corners). Tiny yellow mark on front free endpaper, else neat, clean, tight and bright internally. In its original illustrated dust jacket (a little chapped at edges in places and one very short closed tear but still bright, clean and clear). Price clipped. Jacket fitted with archival-quality mylar wrapper to protect & prolong its life. It is not adhered to the book or to the jacket. The third volume in Plaidy's Queen Victoria Series.