Adelaide Procter (ed.) - The Victoria Regia. A Volume of Original Contributions in Poetry and Prose - 1861

4vo., (10), 349. London: Emily Faithfull and Co. for the Victoria Press (1861), first and only edition, first impression. In elaborately tooled boards, gilt to front, back and spine. Not ex library, no owners marks; front board very weak and barely holding, else good+.

Victoria Press founded by Faithfull as “Printer and Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty.” Procter and Faithfull both founders of the early feminist Society for the Promotion of the Employment of Women, and as such this is a seminal and very rare early feminist work.