
ATKINSON, Emma Willsher. Memoirs of the Queens of Prussia. London, W. K. Kent and Co, 1858.
8vo. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, ornamented in blind; pp. vi, [2], 425, cloth only a little marked, offsetting from endpapers, otherwise an attractive copy of an uncommon work, even more so with the intact original publisher's binding.
First edition. A monograph of the Hohenzollern Royals from a female perspective. Emma Willsher Atkinson (1826-1900), daughter of a curate, published two books, the present one and a novel, Extremes the following year.
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