A Victorian scrapbook-friendship book, G.D. Riley, August 18...

A Victorian scrapbook-friendship book, G.D. Riley, August 1873, original works including 8 pen-and-ink cartoons and caricatures (No Compulsion, the meeting of a swell and a porter; Greenfish's Valentine; Rather Fishy, a head master and a fishing truant; other social and educational satires), a pencil landscape under tissue-guard, a charcoal sketch of a parrot, watercolour foliate monogram and maxim, a study of a rose, typically inscribed with commonplace prose and verse, as well as best wishes, and further illustrated with scraps and prints from periodicals, disbound, 4to; a drawing room album compiled by the same hand, G.D. Riley, Hucknall Tockard, Nottingham, n.d. [c. 1870], with a watercolour of a butterfly, Part of Front Paper/Chinese New Testament in ink manuscript, an embossed card inscribed with the Lord's Prayer in miniature, a watercolour still life of seashells and seaweeds, watercolour en grisaille of the Boyne Obelisk in Ireland, and inscribed and typically further illustrated with manuscripts, scraps and mixed media prints, 19th c quarter-roan over marbled boards, worn, folio (30 x 24.5cm), (2)

Estimate:£60

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