£550
Christmas Greetings Cards. Three Victorian albums of approx. 250 cards, of which the smallest album of roan over marbled boards has approx. 78 examples, loosely-inserted in annotated leaves and are sometimes dated between 1860-67, comprising embossed examples, botanical, typographic and pictorial, including an early depiction of Father Christmas on a card (1866), sentimental, religious, etc., various publishers, mostly printed by chromolithography, mixed formats and sizes, slightly worn binding and contents with some movement, 4to, a slightly later album, My Christmas Cards, compiled by Gertrude H. Williams, dated Christmas 1875, with approx. 90 cards, including a card with a clown holding begrudgingly holding a branch of holly and inscribed 'Here We Are Again/A Merry Xmas.2.U.', some novel and comic, sentimental, religious, robins, a festive clown, occasional embossed examples, original cloth, split, worn, with losses and some movement, 8vo, and a later 19th/early 20th c album with contemporary cards, various subjects, mixed sizes, contemporary roan over cloth, worn with losses and movement, large 4to, (3)
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