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Scrap albums. Lady Elizabeth Courtney, Views in the South of Devon, London: Dickinson & Son, [1845], 14 tinted lithographs (complete) after drawings by Lady E. Courtney, vignette title (spotted), front free endpaper with contemporary ink manuscript inscription 'To Fanny Barnes ... from her affectionate aunt Laura Blackall', extra-illustrated with approximately 34 mounted or tipped-in items including: 8 watercolour views of scenes around Devon (2 detached), and 2 pen, brown ink and brown wash views 'Backland Beacon' and 'Dartington Parsonage' all presumably by Fanny Barnes; a sepia portrait photograph of a standing man (some surface damage); 3 lithographic views drawn printed & published by G. Rowe: 'Dartmouth, from the Ferry'; 'Mouth of the Dart, Devon'; 'East Teignmouth' (the latter tinted), and another 2 similar 'Teignmouth, from the Dawlish Road'; The Shag Rock, Thatcher, & Oarstone, Torbay - From Daddy Hole'; 11 engraved or lithographic portraits including 2 mezzotints: Mrs Gally Knight, and The Right Honourable William Harcourt (dated 1818), both drawn/painted by H. Eldrige and engraved by S. W. Reynolds, 2 stipple engraved portraits by E. Harding: The Right Honble. Sylvester Douglas after T. Lawrence, and Master Douglas after J. Hazlitt, an engraved portrait of the Rt. Hon. Charlotte Countess of Verulam, by Dean from a miniature by Hawkins (proof copy), a lithographic portrait of Thomas Blackall B.D., by F. Pistrucci, printed by C.Hullmandel, and other portraits, plus others similar including an engraving 'N. W. View of Exeter Cathedral' by W. C. Featherstone, some spotting (mainly to blank margins), occasional dampstaining (mainly to some gutters and support leaves), 1 leaf detached, contemporary deep maroon half morocco, rubbed, a little wear in places, oblong folio, together with: a Victorian scrap album, decorative title with pencil manuscript ownership inscription 'Susan H. Coall, January 1st 1837', numerous mounted or tipped-in engravings etc., interspersed with ink manuscript verse in various neat hands, such as 'The Widowed Mother', 'Home Sweet Home', 'Advice', and 'The Better Land', illustrations include: 12 Doctor Syntax hand-coloured etchings with aquatint, drawn & etched by Rowlandson (1 lacking lower left corner); some comic scenes such as 'Mr Pokey's powerful perception', 'The Roasting of Joseph'; several literary, historical and other scenes such as 'Soiree' by A. Hervieu; a selection of portraits including 'Author of the French Cook' lithograph portrait of Louis Eustache Ude by Daniel Maclise and published by James Fraser 'The Author of "The Women of England"' by W. Holl after P. A. Gaugain, engravings of horses including Touchstone, Queen of Trumps etc.; some engraved views; a pencil sketch; and two hand-coloured engravings taken from 'A Geographical present: being descriptions of principal countries of the world', c.1817, comprising 'A Hottentot Man & Woman' and 'Man & Woman of St. Petersburg', variable spotting and soiling, some dampstaining (mainly affecting title and some support leaves), all edges gilt, contemporary embossed morocco, rebacked, worn, small 4to, with four other scrap albums, containing a quantity of mounted or tipped-in illustrations (a few loose) including: 8 hand-coloured lithographs of historical costumes, captioned in French, including Espagnole, Chinoise, Cracovienne, Odalisque, Ecossaise; engraved portraits of various beauties; 2 lithographs by M. Gauci; an engraving 'The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal' by H. Robinson after Sir W. C. Ross; 'Entrance to the London & Birmingham Railway Station, Euston Square, London' and 'Viaduct over the River Colne, near Watford', both engraved by W. Radclyffe, the latter depicting a 5-arched railway viaduct designed by Robert Stephenson and built in 1837, with an early steam train crossing the viaduct, an apparent fireman with coal shovel visible, plus passengers sitting both in the carriages and on the roofs, a few chromolithographed