A post-Regency/early Victorian lady's scrap album-commonplac...

Hammer

£65

A post-Regency/early Victorian lady's scrap album-commonplace book, compiled by E.H.W., monogrammed and engraved title-page, illustrated with three cut watercolours of butterflies, topographical and portrait engravings and lithographs, and inscribed in ink manuscript with a 3pp poem 'To Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent/August 17. 1834' by Lady Flora Hastings, contemporary morocco, tooled and blocked in blind, all-edges gilt, 8vo, (1); an early 20th century album, partially-illustrated with watercolours and one pen-and-ink drawing, red roan gilt, 8vo, (1), [2]