By Not Stated
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12" by 9.5"
A lovely Victorian photo album with hand coloured decorations to the leaves, mostly left blank but containing some original photographs pasted to the leaves.
By Not Stated

c1880 Victorian Photo Album

Not Stated   None
12" by 9.5"
A lovely Victorian photo album with hand coloured decorations to the leaves, mostly left blank but containing some original photographs pasted to the leaves.
£975.00
: 4kgs / : 804A11

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Description

Colour Plates, Original Binding, Pleasing Copy

An original photo-album with eleven family portraits pasted to the leaves and iconographic images, as well as numerous blank spaces for mounting photographs. Twenty-five leaves are decorated with hand-drawn and coloured decorations with frames to insert pictures. 

In a stunning decorative binding in wooden boards, with doubleur endpapers. A charming book that would make a lovely and original family photo album.

Condition

In a stunning decorative binding with leather spine and wooden boards, with doubleur endpapers and metal clasps, lacking the key to lock it. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear, light rubbing to the spine and rear board. Internally, the hinges are slightly strained. The volume generally firmly bound. The pages are very clean throughout, in double thick sheets. With eleven family portraits pasted to the leaves and iconographic images, as well as numerous blank spaces for mounting photographs. Various leaves are decorated with hand-drawn and coloured decorations. 

Very Good

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