1881 - A Birthday Book Designed by Princess Beatrice Deluxe Edition Full Leather

A Birthday Book Designed by her Royal Highness the Princess Beatrice Published by Smith Elder & Co, London 1881 Deluxe Edition Hardback bound in a full red leather binding by the hatchards bindery of Piccadilly, marbled endpapers & gilt inner dentelles, complete copy with two coloured chromolithograph frontis plates + a coloured chromolithograph plate to the start of each month plus one further plate to rear [15 in total] page edges gilt, several pages from each month have names and dates written in hand with several names written to rear index pages {see image for example]. Book measures approx 11 x 9 inches A scarce deluxe edition with fine illustrations and bound in a high quality full leather binding.