Courtney Lewis has always stated that two prints should be included in the book - CL 203 England’s Queen, or Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen and CL 204 His Royal Highness Prince Albert.

I have a copy with just the one plate, England’s Queen which had no obvious signs of the print of Prince Albert having been removed.
 

Roger & Yvonne Smith wrote in the New Baxter Society newsletter of November 2019 that they had a similar book laid out as mine. They had noted two versions of the book as advertised in The Leamington Spa Courier on 2nd December 1848 for delivery later that month:
 

• Larger (Quarto) version with “four splendid engravings of the Queen, Prince Albert, The Duke of Wellington and the author”

• Smaller (Octavo) version with the two Baxter prints as called for.

Other editions can be found:

• Larger (Quarto) version (as held by University of Toronto) with the two Baxter prints on large plain mounts with a blue lined border along with engravings of Wellington and the Author. The two Baxter prints can be viewed HERE and HERE

• Smaller (Octavo) version (as per Roger & Yvonne’s and my copy) with just the one Baxter print with correspondingly smaller mount.

• Smaller (Octavo) version with just black and white engravings: Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, England’s Hope (a young child), Flowers and The Mountain Stream (nothing to do with the Baxter print of the same title).
   

The size for this latter version is not given on line but comparing the gilt embossed cover proportions it is the same as mine, this version can be viewed HERE 

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I have compared my copy with the latter book’s title page, list of subscribers and dedication etc. Although there is no date of publication on the title page, the text, date on dedication etc. are all exactly the same. I have only managed to compare the smaller editions and they all have a date of Feb 1849 on the dedication to the main volume. A small eight page work ‘England’s Hero’ about the Duke of Wellington is found at the back of each book. This has its own title page and is dated 1848.  

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Within the list of subscriber’s names some are noted as ‘quarto’ so that confirms the contemporary advert and that you could have subscribed to either of the two different size versions of the same book from the outset.

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So why did some of the smaller versions end up just having engravings or why did the volume with two Baxter prints end up with just the one?

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I could argue that Baxter was very often late with his work and so they could have been published with other engravings initially but as Baxter most probably didn’t publish these prints specifically for this small run volume and went on to sell, supposedly, 500,000 copies of England’s Queen and the later version of Prince Albert that seems unlikely. H G Clarke in his book Baxter Colour Print states that later editions didn’t have the Baxter prints but we don’t know where he got this information and that contradicts the Dec 1848 advert.

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The only thought I can offer regarding the inclusion of one or two Baxter prints in the volumes is that Baxter’s Prince Albert was published in Oct 1848 so in plenty of time to be included in the book when it first became available in the December. As stated above at some time shortly after Baxter altered the print to what we know as CL 205 with the same title, now Albert is seen in white trousers and black boots. Courtney Lewis states this later print was published in 1850 but as that plate is not dated we can’t be sure. All we do know is that this later print is a lot more common than the original. Perhaps Baxter, supposedly at the request of Prince Albert, altered the design of the print, or at least stopped printing the original version in 1849 and hence it was not available to include in some editions of Wilson’s book?

Anyone who collects books from this era knows that quite often they will be collated in a slightly different order depending on the binder but my copy and also the smaller version with both Baxter prints both carry the same binder’s label of Remnant and Edmonds of London, although, of course, they could have been bound a few months apart.