£280
A mid-Victorian scrap book of prints and drawings assembled by William Morton Philips, including botanical subjects cut from 18th c Chinese wallpaper, a lithograph of Mr Sarony's Photographic Establishment Scarborough and vignettes of costume and fashion, an advertisement for mourning flowers and droops, Victorian chromo Valentine cards, hunting scenes, historic houses, churches and monuments, birds and animals, children, paper puzzle, Peace Commemoration firework display Green Park and many other subjects, each leaf filled, recto and verso (35 x 25cm), signed W Morton Philips 1857, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, worn
Provenance: William Morton Philips (1852-1940) of Heybridge, Staffordshire. The son of John William Philips (1827-1914) and his wife Adelaide Louisa Manningham-Fuller (1833-1860). He married in 1882, Caroline Anne Kate Stockford (1856-1955)
Some leaves slightly browned but in generally very good condition
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