£150
Bindings. A mid-19th century lady's drawing-room album, partially-inscribed in ink manuscript with verse and sentiment, and partially-illustrated with well-executed pencil &/or pen-and-ink drawings, loosely-inserted etching and a botanical watercolour, etc., contemporary green roan (lower-cover beginning to give at joints, some rubbing), ornately block-tooled in gilt extra, all-edges gilt, small 8vo, A Record of The Presentation of a Gold Watch and Chain to John Richard Stephen Arkwright Esq., on his his Twenty First Birthday, January 13th 1928, by The Tenants and Employees of The Kinsham Court Estate as signed within, three-quarters of the contents inscribed, contemporary blue morocco, gilt-ruled single-fillet enclosing the recipient's monogram, rounded flat spine, all edges gilt, gilt foliate dentelles, marbled endpapers, 8vo, (2).
Provenance: the Arkwright family of Hampton Court Castle, and later Kinsham Court, Herefordshire.
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