Binding - The Court Album: Fourteen Portraits of The Female ...

Hammer

£45

Binding - The Court Album: Fourteen Portraits of The Female Aristocracy, Engraved by the Best Artists, from Drawings by John Hayter, London: David Bogue, 1851, 14 steel engravings as called for, contemporary ?Anglo-Indian binding of crimson calf richly gilt, Bound at Educ[ation] Society's Press, [?Byculla, Bombay], their ticket, the covers centred by flowering urns within a frame of Rococo scrolls and trailing flowering leafy stems, the whole within a double-fillet, six-compartment spine lettered in the second, gilt turn-ins and dentelles, all edges gilt, contemporary yellow endpapers, the two recto endpapers annotated in ink MS and surmounted by an ownership inscription by the same hand and dated 1933, 4to, (1); Portraits of the Children of the Nobility: A Series of Highly Finished Engravings, Executed Under the Superintendence of Mr Charles Heath, from Drawings by Alfred E. Chalon, Esq. R.A., Painter to the Queen, and other Eminent Artists, with Illustrations in Verse, by Distinguished Contributors, Edited by Mrs Fairlie, Third Series, London: Longman [...], 1841, 8 full-page steel engravings with explanatory letterpress leaves, contemporary green moiré boards, gilt-lettered and bordered in blind, ink MS annotation en suite to the latter volume and subsequent presentation inscription to Eva Mabel Tenison (1880-1961, historian and novelist) dated 31/5/47, folio (36cm x 27.5cm), (1), [2]

Provenance: Robert Innes-Smith, 20th century bookplates - Chippendale Armorial to first volume, Jacobean Armorial to second.