A Mid-Victorian Ebony, Leather, and Silver-Bound Photograph Album

The front cover mounted with a molded ebony panel, centered by a gilt-thread Prussian Royal crown and the initials 'VR' and with silver clasp, the interior with gilt-tooled front and back pages lined with burgundy watered silk, enclosing thirty gilt-edged pages with black and white photographs of the countryside and mainly English country seats in the West country, including: Hardwick Grange, Hawkstone, Sundorne Castle, Attingham, Leaton Knolls, Wroxeter Church, Longner Hall, Haughmond Abbey, Berwick House, Pitchford, Acton Reynald Hall, Wynnstay, Condover Hall (including two interior views), Llanerchydol Hall, Lutwyche, Apley Park, Powis Castle, Montacute (including six interior views), Barrington Court, and Glastonbury Abbey; each photograph labelled underneath in black ink, the front page with typed paper label 'PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUM WITH SILVER CLASP (FORMERLY THE PROPERTY OF QUEEN VICTORIA)', the lock with maker's mark of George John Parry

Estimate:$800

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