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VICTORIAN KEEPSAKE ALBUM, Albumen Prints c.1870

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A collection of poetry, verses and personal inscriptions written by friends and relatives to Betsy (Bessie) Stevenson of Hamilton (Ontario?) over a period of about ten years, 1863-1874. Includes 5 albumen prints (one of Niagara Falls) and a few pencil sketches in an album featuring a gilt decorated cover with reverse painting on glass of the Crystal Palace from The Great Exhibition of 1851 in London. 8½x5½, painted wooden boards, gilt edges, marbled front endpapers, printed back endpapers.
Author: **
Heading: (Keepsake Album)
Date Published: c.1870

Album is sympathetically rebacked, dimensional frame around cover image is missing 1" section, light wrinkling to some pages. Generally very good.

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1:00 PM PT - Apr 12th, 2007

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