Description
Silhouette book, c. 1816, the portraits cut from squares of white paper laid down upon contrasting brown paper, 56 silhouettes, almost all named, persons being from aristocratic and society families (Sir Henry & Lady Blackwood, Lord Arden, Charles George Percival & Hon John Percival, Sir William Hicks, Sir Charles Felix Smith, &c., one piece of paper impressed bearing the Prince of Wales Feathers and the Name "Bath Paper", some silhouettes removed, album worn; Commonplace/Scrap Album" of Jane Parker (1801-1870), poems, extracts, anecdotes, watercolours (10 botanical), drawings, prints, &c., maroon morocco gilt (2)