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Smalls tears to front and rear cover boards, fading/abrasion on rear cover board. General wear to binding as seen in photos. Some blank pages show evidence of previously existing plates or paper that had been glued in but were removed. One illustration has some loss depicted in photos, but otherwise good.
A neat scrapbook with name written on inside front cover and year 1877. The scrapbook is filled intermittently throughout with a wide range of material, all 17th century to 19th century plates and ephemera.
-Engraved title leaf from Den Bloem-Hof van de Nederlantsche Ieught, Amsterdam: Dirck Pietersz, 1610-Engraved Ridotto admission ticket, King's Theatre, Haymarket, 1787, designed and engraved by J.K. Sherwin, Engraver to His Majesty-Embossed openwork valentine/love token with mounted oval engraving of a couple, cartouche reading "With Sincere Affection," late 18th century.-The Immortality of Nelson, engraved by Charles Heath after Benjamin West-The Misers, hand-colored print after the picture then in the Royal Collection-Chinese export gouache on pith, flowering branch with gilt highlights (losses at edges)-Hand-colored costume and fashion plates including Court Magazine portrait plates and Fancy Costumes (Payne, Denmark Street, Soho)
I counted over 40 individual pieces. The binding appears to use block printed decorated paper for the cover boards, a nice additional novelty.
I can't discern an obvious theme other than it is all visually striking and beautiful pieces.
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