Author: LATE WILLIAM IV OR EARLY VICTORIAN CHILDREN'S SCRAPBOOK.
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Description: A small quarto scrapbook, 237 x 180 mms., completely filled with mostly hand-colored illustrations, almost certainly taken from chapbooks of the period, some illustrations dated 1830 and 1834, with the paste-down end-papers and 27 leaves covered recto and verso with illustrations, mostly of children and mostly of domestic scenes, as well as cricket, swimming, games, dancing, etc. Attractively bound in contemporary blind-stamped borders within ornately gilt border, rebacked with old spine gilt in compartments to a lyre and floral motif laid down; rear free end-paper and paste-down end-paper with remains of glue, but a fine copy.

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