Beschreibung:

Mauchline whitewood photograph album. Mauchline Ware photograph album, circa 1880, six thick card leaves bound concertina-style, containing a full complement of twelve albumen print topographical images (by James Valentine , including Kelso & Kelso Abbey, Floors Palace, Botanical Gardens at Floors Palace, Spitchel Linn, Kelso, Small Holm Tower, St. Catherine's Window, Dryburgh Abbey, Melrose Abbey from the S.W., Jedburgh Abbey from the River and Norham Castle, image size approx. 11 x 16 cm, original sycamore covers, the upper cover with large oval photographic view of Kelso Abbey, with printed vignette view to each corner, the rear cover with large oval photographic printed display of ferns and foliage, original red morocco spine (minor wear), brass clasp, 18 x 24 cm, together with: Tartanware binding. The Lady of the Lake, by Sir Walter Scott Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1869, ten mounted photographs, numerous wood engraved illustrations to text, some scattered spotting, all edges gilt, original papier maché Tartanware boards (Prince Charlie tartan), upper board with inlaid faux oil painting vignette of Melrose Abbey, original gilt decorated crimson morocco spine, 8vo (210 x 137 mm), with Tartanware binding. The Poetical Works of Robert Burns London & New York: Frederick Warne & Co, 1892, all edges gilt, original papier maché Tartanware boards (Stuart tartan), upper board with oval photographic portrait of Burns, rear board with four abalone stud feet, original red morocco spine, lettered in gilt, a little rubbed and a few minor marks, 8vo (182 x 123 mm), with 7 other tartanware bindings, various sizes from 16mo to 8vo (Quantity: 10)