The Royal Cameo Scrap Book of Embossed Heads

by Compound-plate Color Printing

$6,000 · Offered by The Veatchs Arts of the Book

London: Kendall and Son, ca. 1840 . 9 1/2 x 11. Ten compound-printed color plates as issued mounted on heavy stock: Address Plate, Inscription Plate, and profile portraits of King William IV, Queen Adelaide, Duke of Wellington,Earl Grey, Lord Broughan, Lord Byron, Sir Walter Scott, and Thomas Moore. Blank leaves are provided for the owner to add other Scraps. This owner added an engraving of portraits to the album. Original embossed plaque red morocco

• Binding: Leather

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