Botany, a late Victorian lady's commonplace album, A. Linacr...

Hammer

£70

Botany, a late Victorian lady's commonplace album, A. Linacre, 1880 and onward, one leaf 'illuminated' and scrivened with the owner's name and the date surmounted by the family coat of arms, the corpus of the manuscript illustrated with pen and ink, pencil and watercolour studies of horses, domestic pets, landscapes and genre scenes, the album incorporates a small herbarium over various leaves with annotated pressed and dried flowers and fauna, further inscribed with prose and verse - original and from belles-lettres, sentiments and wishes from friends, etc., gilt roan coves only, square 8vo, (1); another later, Dorothy Holgate, the album principally illustrated with tipped-in watercolour or pen and ink compositions, generally comic, dated 1923 and onward, padded black leather covers, marbled endpapers, Ex Libris Gerry and Linda Wolstenholme, oblong, 8vo, (1); another, similar, partially-filled, cloth, oblong 12mo, (1), [3]