The scraps for which these early albums and scrapbooks had been devised were random oddments cut from a variety of engraved and lithographed prints, newspapers and magazines.

This small album from 1840 measuring 95 x 121mm (3¾ x 4¾in) has a blind embossed leather cover bearing the makers name of Remnant & Edmonds, discreetly tucked away within the design, on the spine the word “ALBUM” is stamped in gilt.

The opening page contains a trimmed engraving of young Victoria

The author also included upon the album’s tinted pages a mixture of hand-written and printed material in the form of personal writing, poetry, literary contributions, religious and sentimental endearments alongside hand-coloured prints, engravings, pencil drawings and water-colour paintings.

Placing a strong light, momentarily, behind the album pages reveals a number of them bear the watermark of “J. Whatman, Turkey Mill, 1832”.

Early Albums

• Victorian Albums
• Victorian Scraps
• Father Tuck's Complete Picture Maker

• Lace-Paper Valentines
• Comic Valentines

• Easter Frolics
• In Fairyland

• A Victorian Christmas
• A Christmas Menagerie

• The Calendar
• Reward of Merit
• The English Lotteries

• Victorian Greeting Card Publishers

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