SPL Hand Coloured Rare Book Collection Featuring Norman R Bobins

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[SCRAPBOOK]
[Scrap] Album

A fairly typical Victoria-era scrap album containing some nice coloured prints, but mostly small uncoloured, arranged montages for scenes, families, children, and various prints of a range of subjects.

Published
England: c. 1830-47.
Plates
23
Binding/Size
M=4to
Value
0-5000
Published
England: c. 1830-47.
Ref
822

4to, [10" x 12".] 156 Steel and lithographic black & white and original hand-coloured engraved plates. Complete - includes seventy-five uncoloured scenes and views and thirty beautiful ladies and children fashion and portrait engraved plates. In addition, there are twenty-one engraved plates of people, etc., plus eight original hand-coloured beautiful ladies' fashions. Portrait engraved plates and six original hand-coloured engraved view plates. There are eight pencil sketches and eight hand-coloured ladies' fashion plates, and slight marks (loose). Full morocco gilt with a glazed scene on upper and lower boards, gilt to spine, edges rubbed. All edges are gilt. Triple gilt fillet to the inner edge. FINE COPY. Eight loose-coloured ladies' fashion plates (May-August 1836) are tucked inside the book in the front. Coloured plates in order: 1-8. Ladies Fashion Plates 1836 [loosely inserted]. 9. Album, decorative title page. 10. [Pretty Lady] 11. Eton from the North Terrace. 12. [Pretty Lady] 13. Second Epistle to Davie a Brother Poet. 14. [Pretty Lady]. 15. European Town scene & European Mountainous scene]. 16. [Two Pretty Ladies / A Single Pretty Lady / A Royal Carriage or Hunting Party on the Moors?]. 17. [Rustic scene with people in the foreground conversing and a castle in the background.] 18. [Pretty Lady]. 19. On Earth Peace Goodwill Toward Men. 20. [Rustic scene]. 21. [Pretty Lady]. 22. [Pretty Lady at her toilet]. 23. [Pretty Lady].