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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. small folio, 56pp of ads + 214pp + 48pp of ads, photogravure portrait frontispiece of Queen Victoria, additional illustrated title, 43 b/w plates (all with tissue guards), all pictorial adverts finely designed and printed in blue, adverts and all text within red printed borders, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, bound in contemporary half morocco over green dark green boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt. A handsome volume and excellent example of Scottish printing with some fine designed pictorial advertisements. Rare is the place in Royal Deeside that escapes Queen Victoria's influence - but even in this land of royal patronage, Crathie, and utterly captivating village, has rather special royal history. The nest cottages that populate this tiny speck of a place were built for the workers of the Balmoral estate. And, to sustain their religious fortitude with the same rigour as the residents maintained the walls of Balmoral itself, a pretty grey granite church was added in 1895. The last resting place of John Brown, Victoria's favourite ghillie, Crathie Church remains, to this day, a royal place of worship.