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Country house album, late 1860s-1870s; scrapbook with poems and photographs, 1850s-1860s

Album with 135 albumen prints, cartes-de-visite to 8 x 6 in., one signed in the negative, A. Wilson, the majority titled on mounts, maroon morocco (rubbed), g.e., 4to; another with 130 albumen prints, various sizes to 8½ x 6½ in., maroon leather, g.e., 8vo. (2)

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The first includes portraits of the Rev. John Brooke, various members of the Mordaunt family and views of Lichfield Cathedral (by Wilson) Condover Hall, Hodnet Hall and of Woodcote Hall Shropshire, after a fire in 1875. The second includes British architecture, sculpture and art reproductions with an unusual view of a large bonfire or beacon being inspected by firemen during construction.

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