| Description | Printed exemplar for a commonplace album intended for drawings and poetry. Title page reads "To the Ladies, the universal patronesses of the muses and the graces, themselves the grace and ornament of all society in every relation of human life, this attempt, to embellish their useful pleasures, and assist in rendering familiar literature and taste, which now flourishes under their kind encouragement, is, with the most profound respect and gratitude, humbly as dutifully inscribed". A mixture of pages printed as 'scrap sheets' with text and with music, and blank pages printed with cartouches for drawings. Some engravings and coloured drawings have been added. |