c1890 Evelyn Waugh's Photo Album

Description

With Waugh's bookplate to the front pastedown.

Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) was a novelist, travel writer and journalist, with his most well-known works including 'A Handful of Dust', 'Brideshead Revisited' and the trilogy 'Sword of Honour'. Waugh was one of the most important writers of the twentieth century.

With truly stunning hand painted illuminations to the borders, with illustrations including of an anthropomorphic fox and bird, peacocks and flowers. These illuminations often have inset photographs from the nineteenth century.

Containing two photographs only: one of an aristocratic or possibly royal woman wearing eighteenth or early nineteenth century clothing, one of three siblings taken in Germany also depicting young aristocrats.