A late Victorian and later lady's illustrated drawing-room c...

Hammer

£50

A late Victorian and later lady's illustrated drawing-room commonplace-friendship album, the property of Kath: Ada Campbell, inscribed in ink manuscript from 1889, colourful paper leaves illustrated with accomplished pen-and-ink caricatures and cartoons, a herbarium leaf of dried flora and foliage, watercolour and pencil still lives enclosing passages from belles-lettres, other leaves of prose and verse, friends' sentiments, loosely inserted mounted watercolour: "Corsica/as seen from Cannes before sunrise Jan:ry 1866/distant 155 miles"; cut-paper still life, mounted; other loosely-inserted ephemera, contemporary black roan gilt, all-edges gilt, 4to, [1]