| Provenance: | Tipped in: Inscribed cartes de visite of the author and his wife pasted to front endpapers; broadside poem titled "(20 September, 1824.) Anniversary - 56!" printed on grey paper with gilt boarder pasted to verso of front free endpaper, inscribed in the author's hand "S.C. Hall and for Anna Maria Hall."
Author's presentation inscription: "To Madame Sonneberg(?) with the compliments & regards of the Author S.C. Hall. Nearly the whole of this Book of Rhymes was written at Devon Lodge, East Molesey, in the year 1880 - at the close of it - and in January 1881. It will therefore be additionally interesting to Madame Sonneberg(?). Moreover it is dedicated to the grandchildren of my beloved mistress the Queen. God bless her!"
Binding: grey and brown decorated cloth boards, stamped and lettered in gilt; floral decorated endpapers; binder's ticket: S.W. Lord, Stationer &c, 12 Gloucester Road, South Kensington.
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