Cricket. An early 19th c drawing-room album, c. 1830, illust...

Hammer

£800

Cricket. An early 19th c drawing-room album, c. 1830, illustrated with a contemporary watercolour of a cricket match, within a fenced pitch and before a manor house, 10.6 x 15cm, mounted on a leaf with manuscript lines viz. the sport, loosely-inserted watercolour of a similar house from a different perspective, 13.5 x 23cm, the album further typically illustrated and inscribed over approx. [65]ff, with commonplace prose and verse from belles-lettres, and enclosing mixed media works on papers, including an earlier cartoon of Napoleon, [Triumph des Jahres 1813/ Den Teutschen zum Neuenjahr 1814], s.l., s.n., n.d. [1814], cut-out profile, etching, with contemporary watercolour hand-colouring, trimmed with loss of all lettering, 18 x 9cm, with a loosely-inserted contemporary 3pp MS poem on the same subject, India: a tipped-in ALS of 2pp, indistinctly inscribed by a contemporary Indian, in English, to a Master Surgster (?; presumably a member of the East India Company), addressed and dated Bombay/11th July 1829, viz. passage on a ship, an indistinct named-view pen-and-ink of an Indian landscape c. 1830, gouache still life on a petrified leaf, 11 x 11cm, four Chinese watercolour studies on pith paper, various states of condition and sizes, a small watercolour of British soldiers, full-page monochrome pen-and-ink study of a deer, named-view watercolour of Torquay, a satirical print by G. Davies after Charles Jameson Grant, [Frontispiece for The Penny Magazine] The March of the Intellect, lithograph, n.d. [1830-35], trimmed loss of primary title, 25.5 x 20cm, cut-out engravings and further mixed process prints, finely bound in a somewhat worn contemporary brown straight-grained morocco over boards, gilt, contemporary bookseller's ticket to pastedown: Wilson, 88, Royal Exchange, London, rubbed and worn binding, split and contents loose/loosening, all edges gilt, 4to