A 19th c photographically-illustrated scrapbook, almost cert...

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£60

A 19th c photographically-illustrated scrapbook, almost certainly a clergyman's of the Chichester diocese, approx. [76]ff, a manuscript invitation card from The Duke of Wellington, presumably the field marshal, and presumably in a secretarial hand, requesting the company of Lady Georgiana Bathurst to dinner to meet their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke & Duchess and Prince George and Princess Augusta of Cambridge; a patent chromotype permanent photograph of Princess Dagmar of Denmark (later Maria Feodorovna, Empress/Tsarina of Russia), by J. Russell & Sons of Chichester; MS riddle by Lord Macaulay, presumably not autograph; MS Song to welcome the Return of our friendly organist 1817, composed of two verses of lyrics on a scrap of paper; a pen-and-ink caricature/cartoon of a competition or election, dated Chichester, September 1875; another by a different hand, Scene in a certain House in North Street, Chichester, n.d. [c. 1875], possibly in relation to The Prebendal School; two smaller pen-and-ink sketches in places; 69 mixed process and mixed sized photographs, including Dover's Marine Parade and Pier, Chichester Cathedral and its interior, further churches of this and other dioceses, Longleat, less grand country and other houses, portrait cabinet card of Lord Pembroke, informal snapshots of people; six herbarium pages with various botanical specimens; printed ephemera, including broadside, Part of a conversation held outside the Club House on Saturday Morning, Time - 1.30 A.M., s.l., s.n., n.d., letterpress on blue paper, some MS annotation; letterpress poetry, In Memoriam of I.R.F., April, 1880, black mourning border; Evening Entertainment, July 19th, 1842, on orange paper; Victorian chromolithographed Christmas and greetings cards; illustrations from Punch and other periodicals, including Bishop Samuel Wilberforce; newspaper clippings viz. the life and career of Dean Burgon of Chichester, other newspaper and periodicals clippings, ecclesiastical promotion, preferment, intelligence and theological debate, The Last of the Hanover-Square Rooms, the price of meat; early 19th c and later engraved plates from books and periodicals, etc., a few gatherings loosely-inserted, black roan over cloth boards, c. 1830, perished spine but holding, marbled endpapers, 4to