LATE VICTORIAN EMBOSSED LEATHER ALBUM OF INTERESTING SCRAPS,...

Hammer

£70

LATE VICTORIAN EMBOSSED LEATHER ALBUM OF INTERESTING SCRAPS, CUT-OUTS, PRINTS, FASHION PLATES, LONG-HAND POETRY, etc., made up of individual pages, some with hand-written text within embossed reserves and frames; a well drawn pencil sketch entitled Pandora and a note written by SJ on Reform Club, Pall Mall headed paper wishing Bernard a Happy Birthday; many prints depicting pursuits of the period; items from 1839 - 1880s, (many loose pages) and a 19th CENTURY ALBUM WITH JAPANESQUE EMBOSSED AND GILT ENHANCED FRONT BOARD, with sparse contents but including scraps of macabre characters after Louis Crusius entitled A Withered Blossom, The Diagnosis and Expert Testimony; propretary scraps include Japanese tradtional dress and military uniform and a good number of cut out monograms, crests, etc., (2)