| Description | Printed album entitled "The Drawing Room Album and Companion for the Boudoir: An Elegant Literary Miscellany; Illustrated With Beautiful Engravings on Steel", featuring an engraving of Miss Croker at the front. Published by Edward Lacey, of London. Dedicated to "The intelligent and intellectual Ladies of Great Britain". Notes by William St Clair on the front pastedown and front free endpaper indicate that the album is from the early 1830s, with paper watermarked 1831. It is an ideal of a manuscript commonplace book. Contains poetry and prose, as well as engravings, with pages of various colours of paper. |