Commonplace Books.- Four Victorian Commonplace Books, containing colour plates, pencil sketches, elaborate decorative cards, pressed flora, newspaper extracts, manuscript poems, short stories and monographs, manuscript notes on horticulture, etc., very occasional light spotting, one with bookplate, one or two leaves loose, most in contemporary burgundy morocco, decorated in gilt or blind, spines richly gilt or blind-stamped, g.e., paper label remnants to one, slightly rubbed, another in contemporary vellum, upper cover slightly soiled, lower cover stained, 4to, [mid-nineteenth century].