| Description | Commonplace album containing poetry and some prose extracts in various hands, including recurring themes of friendship and farewell. The first free endpaper contains the name L. Kilroy, with a note by William St Clair that the paper is watermarked 1820. Some entries are signed or initialled, and/or dated. The first several pages at the front of the book feature cut-outs of drawings, engravings and prints pasted over the top of the writing; subjects of these cut-outs include household products such as silversmiths' soap and knife polish, an organ, scenery, colour prints of Madame Veuve Marais and other women. Some pages contain remnants of pressed flowers or plants. |