| Description | Printed work / exemplar titled "The Drawing-Room Album and Companion for the Boudoir, an elegant literary miscellany, illustrated with beautiful engravings on steel." Publisher: London: Edward Lacey, 76 St Paul's Churchyard. Dedication page reads; "To the Intelligent and Intellectual Ladies of Great Britain, the best patrons of the elegant literature of their country, 'The Drawing-Room Album' is most respectfully dedicated, by the publisher". Contains printed poetry, chiefly Romantic, and 8 engravings, mainly of pastoral scenes.
Frontispiece is an additional engraving of 'Miss Croker' [Rosamond Hester Elizabeth (née Croker), Lady Barrow (1810-1906), Wife of Sir George Barrow, 2nd Bt; daughter of William Pennell; adopted daughter of Hon. John Wilson Croker. After a portrait by Thomas Lawrence] |