Early 19th Century Children’s Book-Illustrations in a Scrap Album

Handsome scrap album containing around 150 hand-coloured illustrations from the first half of the 19th century. A mixture of stand-alone engravings and images cut from children’s imprints from publishers such as Darton, J L Marks, R Lloyd, J Fairburn and Lumsden of Glasgow. There are 54 pages - every page including the flyleaves has been used - of neatly mounted, coloured engravings c 1830-40.

Images include the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens; Church Street, Hampstead; a frontispiece from Darton, The Greedy Child Cured & Young Heads not the Wisest (1829). Images from The Truants, J L Marks, Smithfield; The Sun Dial, J L Marks; The Young Cottagers, 1830 R Lloyd, Dramatic Repository; The Child Found, J Fairburn; Elopement, 1834, O Hodgson and Young Mariners, J Lumsden & Son, Glasgow.

Green blind stamped morocco binding with gilt elaboration; spine relaid. All edges gilt; green coated endpapers.