Scrapbook

by Mary Bates

$95 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

privately produced . 1892- circa 1903. LATE VICTORIAN SCRAPBOOK. Small quarto 26 x 19cm , pp. 16 ; 1-2; 9-68. With three leaves removed near the beginning, and two from the back. Containing a great panoply of decorative monograms, crests and printed signatures and addresses belonging to the English gentry, cut from letters or envelopes and pasted into the initial alphabetical section of the book. The paginated section consists largely of newspaper cuttings of amusing stories and anecdotes, and

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