Beauty of Love.

First edition of volume four of this special selection of romantic prose and verse. Octavo, original pictorial half-cloth, pictorial endpapers, frontispiece, silk ribbon bound in, with color illustrations throughout. The pages of this treasury of romantic verse have been specially scented with the beautiful fragrance of Victoria, the signature perfume of Victoria's Secret. Presentation copy, inscribed by Nobel Laureate Francis Crick to his personal assistant on the front free endpaper, "For Maria with love from Francis New Year 1991." Francis Crick was a pioneering British molecular biologist and biophysicist best known for co-discovering the double helix structure of DNA alongside James Watson in 1953, a breakthrough that fundamentally transformed the field of genetics. Maria Lang was employed at the Salk Institute from 1977 to her retirement in 1994, where her organizational skills and dedication facilitated Crick's research activities. Crick, an advocate of open marriage, enjoyed with Lang a sexual relationship between 1981 and 1992. In fine condition. Text selected by Barbara Mellor. Picture research by Julie Brightmore. Housed in a custom pictorial slipcase.