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Laquer friendship album.
Handwritten on the endpaper "Sophia. E. Leaf. 14th February 1866". Started in 1866.
In a marbled dust jacket, half leather binding with gold-stamped spine ("Album"), both book covers made of lacquer with imitation pearls as bosses. On the front cover romantic town view with church and staffage each with integrated mother-of-pearl, back cover with rosette on black ground, gilt edges. 29 x 24 x 2.5 cm.
Friendship album (Liber amicorum) with several blank pages, some with pre-printed or embossed frames. The entries are mostly in English, 1x French. Including 2 ink drawings (including 1 large elaborate portrait of a girl without signature before the 1870 entry by R. Montgomery; possibly Robert Montgomery 1839 Antwerp - 1893 ibid.), 2 watercolor lithographs, 3 pencil drawings, 1 cut-out watercolor (grapes), 1x painted silk, 1x spray-painted branch impression, 1x pasted-on leaves, 1 pinhole image, 2 photographic prints (1x in painted flower frame). Most entries up to 1888, one later entry from 1924. Minor signs of age/use. Dust jacket replaced.
Aufrufzeit 26. | Feb. 2025 | probably 16:29 (CET)
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