£250 - £350
Colonel Humphrey ‘Dumper’ Watts, OBE (1880-1946), of Haslington Hall, Cheshire, his photograph album of 39 photographs, compiled while a captain in the 3rd (Volunteer) Battalion, Cheshire Regiment, including 11 large format views of Oxford, its colleges and a set of rooms (presumably Watts'), the others, mostly annotated, the officers posed on manoeuvres, including Aldershot 1900, Laffan's Plain 1900, Chelsea 1901, Deganwy 1903, Salisbury Plain 1902, Powys 1905 & 1906, Conway [i.e. Conwy] 1909, Abergavenny 1907 & 1908, School of Musketry at Hythe August 1911, Aberystwyth 1910 & 1911, Carmarthen 1912, some of the British Army camps, etc., contemporary green quarter-morocco gilt over cloth boards, the upper-cover monogrammed in gilt: H.W., all-edges gilt, oblong medium folio (32.5cm x 44.5cm).
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