Lot 243
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PYTCHLEY HUNT -- A commemorative album of photographs presented to John, 5th Earl Spencer, by his hunting party. c.1879. Oblong folio (414x515 mm). 15 photographic prints (c. 200x260 mm), window-mounted on card with richly gilt frames incorporating a semée of crests specific to the building shown. (A few plates with some spotting.) Red morocco gilt by Birdsall & Son, with stamp, the sides gilt with a broad frame incorporating corner tools with the Spencer cypher, gilt turn-ins and vellum doublures, the pasted-downs with a framed semée of Spencer cyphers, gilt edges (the front joint split, corners lightly rubbed). Provenance: John Poyntz, 5th Earl Spencer (printed dedication)
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PYTCHLEY HUNT -- A commemorative album of photographs presented to John, 5th Earl Spencer, by his hunting party. c.1879. Oblong folio (414x515 mm). 15 photographic prints (c. 200x260 mm), window-mounted on card with richly gilt frames incorporating a semée of crests specific to the building shown. (A few plates with some spotting.) Red morocco gilt by Birdsall & Son, with stamp, the sides gilt with a broad frame incorporating corner tools with the Spencer cypher, gilt turn-ins and vellum doublures, the pasted-downs with a framed semée of Spencer cyphers, gilt edges (the front joint split, corners lightly rubbed). Provenance: John Poyntz, 5th Earl Spencer (printed dedication)

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PYTCHLEY HUNT -- A commemorative album of photographs presented to John, 5th Earl Spencer, by his hunting party. c.1879. Oblong folio (414x515 mm). 15 photographic prints (c. 200x260 mm), window-mounted on card with richly gilt frames incorporating a semée of crests specific to the building shown. (A few plates with some spotting.) Red morocco gilt by Birdsall & Son, with stamp, the sides gilt with a broad frame incorporating corner tools with the Spencer cypher, gilt turn-ins and vellum doublures, the pasted-downs with a framed semée of Spencer cyphers, gilt edges (the front joint split, corners lightly rubbed). Provenance: John Poyntz, 5th Earl Spencer (printed dedication)

Together with a coloured print of Pytchley Hall with the hunt in the foreground, framed (2)
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Please note that the picture included in this lot is in fact a drawing in pen, ink and watercolour signed G. Clarke, Scaldwell, and not a print as stated in the catalogue.

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