ALBUM -- "Christmas Pleasure Book 1872." A 2° album (500 x 340mm). of 65 leaves containing mounted hand-coloured engravings and lithographs, various subjects, but including topography and natural history, and 4 plates from John Thornton's Temple of Flora, namely "The Persian Cyclamen", "The Dragon Arum", "The Quadrangular Passion-flower" and "The Pontic Rhododendron" (cropped). Contemporary half red morocco gilt (extremities rubbed).