Large Victorian Scrap Album containing a Range of Scraps and Cards, Mainly Christmas Cards, Beautifully Laid Out.
by VICTORIAN SCRAP ALBUM
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Hay-on-Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Addyman Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 48876
- Title
- Large Victorian Scrap Album containing a Range of Scraps and Cards, Mainly Christmas Cards, Beautifully Laid Out.
- Author
- VICTORIAN SCRAP ALBUM
- Book Condition
- Used
- Date Published
- N.d. (1865-1880)
- Keywords
- ANTIQUES and COLLECTING scrapbook scraps christmas cards chromlithography
- Bookseller catalogs
- ANTIQUES and COLLECTING;
Terms of Sale
Addyman Books
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About the Seller
Addyman Books
Biblio member since 2006
Hay-on-Wye, Herefordshire
About Addyman Books
Addyman Books is based in Hay-on-Wye, the book capital of the world, with almost 30 bookshops in the town, nestled in the Black Mountains of Wales. We have been established since 1986 and have three shops, Addyman Books, Addyman Annexe and Murder & Mayhem. Large general stock. Murder & Mayhem specialises in Detective Fiction, True Crime and Horror.
Glossary
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- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- O/W
- An abbreviation for otherwise
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...