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Woman's Friendship Album & Commonplace Book, Scotland.
Scotland, circa 1828-1851.
Quarto, consisting of wove paper watermarked J. Budgen 1828, approximately 220 pages, signature of Mary Beatrice Gammon on ffep, red morocco bookplate with gilt-tooled initials M.A.C. pasted inside front board; containing original pencil sketches, watercolors, prints, some with hand-coloring, and verses throughout; one inscription dated 1834, an advertisement for the 1851 Exhibition of All Nations in Hyde Park pasted on one page, a steel engraving of a women titled Chyllena printed in 1849; most prints of buildings and scenes from Scotland; the written verses are primarily concerned with friendship, the pain of saying good bye, death, and married life, including, "The Secret: or, How to Know a Married Woman"; bound in full contemporary straight-grained red morocco tooled ornately in gilt, aeg., with marbled endleaves, rubbed, but nicely preserved, 9 x 7 1/4 in.
