(SCRAP ALBUM) Victorian album containing a fine collection o

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(SCRAP ALBUM.) Victorian album containing a fine collection of chromolithographed trade and greeting cards, watercolor drawings and photographs. Over 150 high-quality cards and die-cuts, over 40 original watercolor sketches and drawings and over 50 albumen photographs mounted recto-verso on 26 card leaves. Folio, 14x11 1/2 inches, 19th century brown morocco ruled in gilt and black, mildly worn and slightly cocked, repairs at head and foot of spine; card mounts with some foxing but items generally in good condition. [England, early 1880's]

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A handsomely put together album of primarily Christmas and New Year's cards interspersed with skilled academic watercolors mostly botanical and natural history in nature; also including several leaves of captioned caricature watercolor sketches in Paris (1881) and Harrogate (1884); tourist photographs mainly relating to English countryside sites including Ilfracombe, Newstead Abbey, Harrogate, Blackgang Chine, Torquay, Bonchurch, and Hastings.