c1886 The Bard of Avon Album

Description

Leather Binding, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

Bound in full morocco with a clasp fastening to the fore edge. 

Illustrated throughout with decorative full colour floral boarders to the frames. 

This album was presented to a Miss Barrett, the treasurer of the president fund of the 'Darling Row Mother's Meeting' by her fellow members, with their signatures to the tail. 

This charming Victorian photo album features pages of decorative photo frames, with full colour illustrations of flowers. Each frame has a quote from noted works and figures such as William Shakespeare's Midsummer's Nights Dream and Winter's Tale and King Henry VI. Only one monochrome portrait has been added to the album. 

Undated, dated by the presentation inscription to the front.