Description | Album containing engravings of people and places, including Princess Victoria and the Duke of Wellington; Lambeth Palace, Harlech Castle, Rochester Castle, Henley bridge, etc. A few manuscript poems (original?) initialled RSR and RC. Coloured prints of birds pasted into the second half of the volume. Mostly blank. Bookplate of the Ogle(?) family (motto "Prenes en gre") on the front pastedown. Paper watermarked 1829. Tooled leather and gilt binding, textblock of multicoloured paper with gilt edges. |