Binding, Australia and New Zealand. A finely bound late 19th...

Hammer

£90

Binding, Australia and New Zealand. A finely bound late 19th century morocco album of Victorian English, Colonial Australasian and African newspaper clippings, compiled by and bound for Hercules Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmead, GCMG, PC (1824-1897), while Sir Hercules, the ephemera dated between 1877 & 1885 while Lord Rosmead was Governor of New South Wales (1872-79), New Zealand (1879-80), & High Commissioner for Southern Africa and Governor of Cape Colony (1881-89), as well as the clippings, the album is also illustrated by a two-fold lithographed maritime panorama, engraved by W. Macleod: "Adieu"/Departure of His Excellency Sir Hercules Robinson, 19th March, 1879", without sounding judgmental, the contents, which are pasted to card leaves, entirely concern himself, red niger morocco over bevelled boards, the covers gilt with a single-fillet enclosing fleurons at angles, raised bands dividing six compartments, lettered in the second and fourth, the remainder with conforming foliage, all edges gilt, gilt foliate dentelles, small folio (31cm x 27cm).