| Summary: | "Title and series from front cover; imprint from colophon, back cover. Text based upon Robert Southey's poem Silver-Hair. At head of title: Untearable linen. "No. 1579 designed at the studios in England. Publishers to their majesties the king & queen & T.R.H. the Prince & Princess of Wales--foot of back cover. Queen Victoria died in 1901. King Edward VII reigned from 1901 until his death in 1910. Raphael Tuck & Sons had offices in Berlin between 1907 and 1915, and in Montreal between 1907 and 1913; cf. Blair and Margaret Whitton, Collector's guide to Raphael Tuck & Sons (1991), p. 6. First and last page blank; pasted to cover. Cover and some illustrations chromolithographed. Has trademark of Raphael Tuck & Sons on back cover consisting of an easel bearing the initials "RTS," and a palette below it with the sign, "Artistic series" and "no. 1579" (inventory number)."
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