A Mid-19th Century Pictorial Scrapbook of Cuttings, Continental, Military and Exotic

Lady Cecilia Maude Roberts (née Howard) (1868 -1947)

Verlag: 1848, 1848

Beschreibung

The album is approximately 28.5 x 22cm. 164 pages, all but 5 liberally covered with black and white cuttings, mostly incorporating their captions, with one image captioned by hand. Lady Cecilia has claimed ownership, adding her name and a small humorous pencil doodle to the inside front board, but both the book itself and the contents look to pre-date her birth, the cuttings being chiefly circa 1848 and most likely put together by her father George Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle, during his childhood, with an emphasis on battles, the 1848 continental revolutions and, towards the rear, several pages devoted to cuttings of HMS Daedalus's August 1848 encounter with the sea serpent and the whereabouts of Franklin's Arctic Expedition. Other concerns include technological developments, such as the old mail coach postal system being replaced by the railways. The book is reasonably firmly bound in rubbed and battered marbled boards, with black cloth corners and spine strip, the corners are bumped with loss and the hinges are splitting but still quite robust. The contents are slightly stained and marked. A lively and engaging Victorian scrapbook, with excellent provenance, from the family of Wilfrid Hubert Wace Roberts (1900-1991), whose mother was Lady Cecilia Roberts (née Howard), daughter of George and Rosalind Howard. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 5707

Bibliografische Details

Titel: A Mid-19th Century Pictorial Scrapbook of ...

Verlag: 1848

Erscheinungsdatum: 1848

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