Half Hours in Woods and Wilds: Adventures of Sport and Travel [Inscribed from Aileen Wyndham Quin to Prince Adolphus]

London: Daldy, Isbister & Co, 1878. Very Good. London: Daldy, Isbister & Co., 1878. Reprint. Octavo; contemporary full black blind-embossed morocco, gilt-lettered spine in six compartments, gilt-tooled turn-ins, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers; xi,[1],308pp.; frontispiece, illus. throughout, many full-paged. Leather a bit rubbed at margins, brief exposure at corners, spine leather slightly sunned, textblock uniformly toned, else Very Good and sound. Forms part of the Half-Hour Library.

Provenance: Sweet juvenile gift inscription of 7-year-old Aileen Wyndham Quin, future Countess of Meath, to 12-year-old Prince Adolphus Cambridge (truncated) (1868-1927), great-grandson of George III. Cambridge grew up to have a storied military career, serving in the British Army during the Boer War and returning to active duty for the first two years of World War I. In 1917, amidst a maelstrom of anti-German sentiment, he relinquished his German titles to become the Marquess of Cambridge. The inscription here reads in a very labored but neat script, "For Dear Prince Adolphus, on his birthday, from his affecate. friend, Aileen Wyndham Quin. August 13th, 1880. (Inventory #: 32638)