TWENTY LEATHER BOUND VOLUMES, "Courtiers and Favorites of Royalty," EDITION DES AQUARELLES, MERRILL AND BAKER, LONDON AND NEW YORK, CIRCA 1903, with elaborate gilt-tooled deep blue Moroccan leather spine and front/back boards with gilt lines enclosing floral stems cornered by fleur de lys, opening to interior boards with gilt tooled deep blue leather framing a red panel cornered by gilt fleur de lys opposite undecorated red leather covered fly page, illustrated frontispiece, verso limited to twenty-six lettered and registered sets, this set letter "a," numerous water colored photo etchings, gilt page tops with uncut sides. (20 vols) 9" x 6"