A lady's friendship album, Truda Torr, Dresden, 1896, [65]ff...

Hammer

£45

A lady's friendship album, Truda Torr, Dresden, 1896, [65]ff, mainly inscribed in manuscript to one side with typical sentiments and passages from belles-lettres, as well as a ditty's musical score with notation composed from various bars of opera, further music, illustrated with 28 pen-and-ink or watercolor illustrations, either double-, full-page, or in-text, two Box Brownie snapshots of Saighton Grange, Cheshire, another group photograph with sitters' signatures, split with some movement, contemporary limp green roan, worn, 8vo; [Americana] The Floral Album, New York: J.C. Riker, 1841, hand-coloured title-page and 3 botanical prints, typical manuscript verse and entries by friends and relatives of Martha Ann of Lynn, Massachusetts, original publisher's roan over boards, gilt, worn, perished spine, 4to; an album of approx. 25 watercolour landscapes and botanical studies, dated 1891-1913, original diced black roan over cloth boards, oblong 8vo; another friendship album, Mabel Cecilia Holmes, Christmas 1908, partiallly-inscribed and partially-illustrated, roan over boards, worn, 8vo; & a blank early 19th c notebook, lacking some leaves, contemporary black roan over boards, worn, 4to, (5)