Souvenirs d'Angleterre; Personnages.

£9,500 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

An unusual and amusing album of period pencil and watercolour plates. The numerous plates depict furniture, street scenes including protests with placards, a variety of costumes including military uniforms, theatrical and various trades all English. Folio ( 52 x 35 cm); an album of 38 pencil and watercolour plates, all in colour except one interior scene in pencil, inscribed and dated throughout, 37 mounted on paper including one advertisement by Smith's, one loose, 14 blank pages at rear, slight browning and fading throughout, decorated endpapers; bound in nineteenth century morocco backed marbled boards, spine gilt ruled and lettered, green morocco label, gilt lettered on upper board, worn at extremities, frayed; overall an attractive album.

• Binding: Hardcover

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