Hyperion : A Romance. by [QUEEN VICTORIA]. LONGFELLOW, HENRY WADSWORTH

Hardcover. Very good. Wood-engraved illus. after BIRKET FOSTER; xiv+304pp; a little spotting. 8vo orig. blue embossed cloth gilt, slight wear on corners, a.e.g., Sarah Anne Hildyard, known as Tilla became the governess of Victoria the Princess Royal [1840-1901] Queen Victoria's eldest child in 1846, when Vicky a wilful child was becoming too much of a handful for her first governess, Sarah Lady Lyttelton.Winifred Oliver-Jones was a noted collector who gave her collection of Baxter prints to the British Museum. She also owned books which had been in the possession of John Clare. No Jacket issued