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GRAND TOUR ALBUM -- Jane Marcia TREVOR. A collection of sketches and pressed flowers commemorating visits to Europe, the Middle East, Asia and North America, 1845-1868.
4° (304 x 222mm). 72 pen and ink or watercolour sketches, each with a pressed flower specimen from the area depicted and all but one with a manuscript caption beneath, 1 albumen print with specimens and caption beneath, 10 pages with pressed flower specimens and captions only. (Some specimens detached.) Near-contemporary blue half morocco (extremities rubbed).
An attractive souvenir album of visits to an unusually wide range of foreign countries. The sketches were probably done by the owner of the book, Jane Maria Trevor, but the specimens were apparently collected and arranged by her travelling companions, many of whom have signed and dated each page: the most frequent companion is 'C. Cecil Trevor', and later other members of the Trevor family and Kate Disraeli. Most sketches and flowers are accompanied by captions, usually including a few lines of poetry. The albumen print is of a mess house in Rangoon. Other places visited include the Niagara Falls, as well as Jerusalem, Sinai, Jordan, major cities in Italy, Germany and Switzerland, as well as castles in the British Isles.
4° (304 x 222mm). 72 pen and ink or watercolour sketches, each with a pressed flower specimen from the area depicted and all but one with a manuscript caption beneath, 1 albumen print with specimens and caption beneath, 10 pages with pressed flower specimens and captions only. (Some specimens detached.) Near-contemporary blue half morocco (extremities rubbed).
An attractive souvenir album of visits to an unusually wide range of foreign countries. The sketches were probably done by the owner of the book, Jane Maria Trevor, but the specimens were apparently collected and arranged by her travelling companions, many of whom have signed and dated each page: the most frequent companion is 'C. Cecil Trevor', and later other members of the Trevor family and Kate Disraeli. Most sketches and flowers are accompanied by captions, usually including a few lines of poetry. The albumen print is of a mess house in Rangoon. Other places visited include the Niagara Falls, as well as Jerusalem, Sinai, Jordan, major cities in Italy, Germany and Switzerland, as well as castles in the British Isles.