A mid-Victorian lady's drawing-room friendship album, the property of and compiled by/& for Jenny Townsend [? of Attleborough House] from 2nd September 1862, gilt-illuminated and hand-scrivened vellum title-page: Album, within a Gothic architectural frame, eclectically illustrated and inscribed with a herbarium page with a pressed and dried marine botanical specimen, two b/w photographs of Attleborough From breakfast room and View from Hall door onto the garden with seated figures, photographic prints of European topography, well-executed watercolours and pencil drawings of still lives of flowers, portraits, topography, and typical genre subjects, a few earlier engravings, original verse, prose, and sentiments in ink MS, corresponding selections from literature, some sincere wishes of Townsend relations and friends, some stiff card leaves elaborately embossed as frames and enclosing tipped-in original art work (some in miniature) and parlour games & related ephemera, the majority of leaves colour paper, etc., contemporary blue roan gilt (rubbed), all-edges gilt, foliate endpapers, 4to, (1); another, probably the same owner as the last, partially-filled, including 3 herbarium leaves of dried and preserved botanical specimens, etc., finely bound in green morocco, each cover embossed with a scrolling foliate frame and enclosing gilt-blocked anthemions, within gilt dogtooth and fillet borders, gilt-lettered spine, all-edges gilt, foliate, endpapers, 4to, (1); another similar, Lilly Borton, 1853, with tipped-in printed and cut-card Christmas and greetings cards, contemporary leather, elaborately tolled in blind and gilt, 4to, (1), [3]
A mid-Victorian lady's drawing-room friendship album, the property of and compiled by/& for Jenny Townsend [? of Attleborough House] from 2nd September 1862, gilt-illuminated and hand-scrivened vellum title-page: Album, within a Gothic architectural frame, eclectically illustrated and inscribed with a herbarium page with a pressed and dried marine botanical specimen, two b/w photographs of Attleborough From breakfast room and View from Hall door onto the garden with seated figures, photographic prints of European topography, well-executed watercolours and pencil drawings of still lives of flowers, portraits, topography, and typical genre subjects, a few earlier engravings, original verse, prose, and sentiments in ink MS, corresponding selections from literature, some sincere wishes of Townsend relations and friends, some stiff card leaves elaborately embossed as frames and enclosing tipped-in original art work (some in miniature) and parlour games & related ephemera, the majority of leaves colour paper, etc., contemporary blue roan gilt (rubbed), all-edges gilt, foliate endpapers, 4to, (1); another, probably the same owner as the last, partially-filled, including 3 herbarium leaves of dried and preserved botanical specimens, etc., finely bound in green morocco, each cover embossed with a scrolling foliate frame and enclosing gilt-blocked anthemions, within gilt dogtooth and fillet borders, gilt-lettered spine, all-edges gilt, foliate, endpapers, 4to, (1); another similar, Lilly Borton, 1853, with tipped-in printed and cut-card Christmas and greetings cards, contemporary leather, elaborately tolled in blind and gilt, 4to, (1), [3]
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