Each leaf has decorative frames exquisitely executed in watercolour, incorporating birds, animals, flowers, butterflies, women, hunting scenes, signed with monogram BSC, to take photographs of family, buildings and paintings, (some without photographs pasted in), by VICTORIAN ALBUM

N.p. Nd. (c.1870?). Hardcover. sm4to. 26cm, 92p., with 94 colour chromo lithos, album with the original maroon red elaborated gilt and back stamped upper cover, beveled boards, near fine (sc). ~ A fine example of a Victorian scrap booking capitalizing on the production of prints using the Baxter production method developed in the 1830's. William Dickes (1815 1892) was a popular English engraver and printer and later in his career started his own printing company of which these prints are fine examples.

no date. (circa1935).. Personal photograph album of a voyage on the M.S. City of Rayville from Port Said to India and Burma. 61 black and white photographs neatly annotated each measuring 6.5 x 8.5cm. Original covers have been replaced with rather amateur cork covers and unlettered cloth tape spine. Some photographs are marked and stained but generally a very interesting album. The album bears the name Nicholas Kyryczuk on the first leaf. It appears that Kyryczuk was a sailor on board the M.S. City of Rayville, (5,833 tons owned by American Pioneer Lines) an American registered freighter which was sunk by a German mine off Cape Otway on the south coast of Victoria in November 1940. the M.S. City of Rayville holds the dubious distinction of being the first US vessel sunk during World War II and having the first US seaman to be killed in the war among her crew. Loosely inserted in the album are two Australian newspaper clippings with stories about the sinking. Although this album covers a period before… Read More

No Publisher, 1890. 1st edition. Hardcover. Date is suggested. Finely bound in the original leather. Professionally and period-sympathetically rebacked in brown leather, with gilt and black spine bands. Elaborated gilt and leather symmetrical tooling to front panel, with black-impressed borders to rear panel. Some rubbing and wear to panel edges, with surface marks also evident. White silk doublure inside front and rear covers. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; An empty Victorian photo album, ca. late 19th century. Features 18 heavy card sections, with room for 2 or 4 photos per section. Each section is gilt-edged. A small number of sections have surface tears. Dims: 25 x 20cm.

N.d. (1865-1880). Large 4to. Half maroon morocco gilt, recased with new endpapers, signs of wear to extremities. 58 pages full of chromo-litho scraps and Christmas, Easter and New Year's cards handsomely arranged. Includes lift the flap and two animated pop-up cards, very scarce. Scraps arranged around cards include flowers, birds, wings, butterflies, frogs, amphibians, horses, children, gilt leaves etc. and tend to be placed in categories. The cards are good examples of the top Victorian manufacturers and include those produced by Marcus Ward and Benjamin Sulman, there is even one by the "Father of the American Christmas Card", Louis Prang. Pages are dog-eared and a couple of cards lack portions o/w a fabulous collection. Please enquire for more details and photographs.

[Westbourne Grove, London: Francis Frith, John Gibson, ca. 1891]. 4to. 12.25 x 10.25 in. [26 unnumbered leaves], thick paper stock. With 52 tipped-in albumen photographs, sized from 2.75 x 4.25 up to 7 x 9 in., some with embossed Frith Series stamp, 1 w/ Gibson Penzance in negative. Emerald green Victorian cloth over thick beveled boards, decorative motifs on front cover in gilt & black, gilt ruling on spine (minor wear to corners, slight bumping, inner hinges repaired), still a VG exemplar, w/ stationer’s label on front pastedown for W. Whitely, Westbourne Grove (fl. 1888-1895). This Victorian souvenir photo album offers appealing sepia-tinted views of historic and important European and British sites in the last decades of the 19th century. The opening large albumen photo of the Cologne Cathedral rising towering over the surrounding city appears to have been taken by Anselm Schmitz (1839-1903), who shot and sold a wide range of images of the famed landmark. Included as well are images of the… Read More

[Portland, OR: Fred Lockley, ca. 1885]. Folio. [30 leaves (unnumbered).] 46 sepia-tinted albumen photos ranging in size from 3.75 x 6.0 in. to 8 x 11 in. mounted on thick card stock on linen hinges, most with manuscript identifications below the images, some w/ info in lower fore-edge of negative (1 small image 2.75 x 3.5 in. hand-coloured), 1 oil painting on stiff board, inserted into corners sized 2.5 x 3 in.; 2 colour chromolith cards, beveled edges w/ gilt, captions in lower fore-edge sized 3.25 x 5 in. Contemporary embossed & decorated red cloth over beveled boards, raised lettering in green & gilt on front cover, decorative motifs stamped in gilt & black on front cover (some wear, rubbing, minor soiling upper fore-edge back cover, minor wear to corners, rebacked), still VG exemplar from the library of noted Spokane, WA librarian and historian, George Washington Fuller (1876-1940), presented to him by Fred Lockley (1871-1958), Oregon historian, and journalist for the Oregon Journal. This… Read More

Pennsylvania: Nyemetz Photography Studio, 1870. Hardback. Date is suggested. A fine period example; padded, rich-ruby velvet over thick bevelled boards. Ornate silver close-clasp with silver studs to the corners of the back panel. White silk doublure. Generalized wear to the extremities with a closed tear to 1 side of the spine. Remains uncommonly well-preserved. ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; Many have the original tissue-guards still intact. All but 1 seem to have been produced at the Nymetz studio and printed on stiff card. 1 was produced at the H.A Clapham studio in Swansea, England (likely a close relative with 2 young children of the main Pennsylvania family). 1 further postcard portrait was produced at the Dittrich studio, Atlantic City, N.J. (again, likely to be a relative).

. 20 leaves of ms. Verse, 12 leaves with engraved illustrations, some coloured, including portraits of John Francis Kemble and Charles Lamb, and 64 blank leaves, with an inscription of the second leaf, "Mrs. Lane/ with the best wishes of/ James M. Daly/ Knaresborough 29 July 1851." The following leaf has the autograph "Lydia Amelia Lane" on the top margin of the recto, and a gilt oval design with centre surrounding her initials, "L. A. L." Daly is also the author of one of the first poems in the volume, addressed to "L. A. L." One of the tipped-in colour engravings is an illustration from Harriet Wilson's Memoirs, which might have been thought a little indelicate for a lady of Mrs. Lane's standing; but there may be more to the illustrations and the verse than is immediately apparent. Bound in full hard grain green morocco with a front cover gilt to an arabesque designs of circles and with central rectangular panel, spine ornately gilt with a harp… Read More