Lincoln, William
The Crest and Monogram Album. William S. Lincoln, [c.1890s]. 8vo, red bubble-grain cloth; unpaginated, 24 leaves of decorated mounts, four pages of advertisements at rear. Fourth ed.
An attractively produced album for collecting badges, crests and similar from one of the pioneers of stamp collecting. The album has been partially filled in, with ten unfilled leaves and the others with varying numbers of crests. Some leaves have been designed to suit particular styles of emblem - such as Cambridge colleges, regimental badges and Honours of the British Empire - though the owner of this one seems to have followed their own idiosyncratic method. Additional crests and similar have been loosely inserted in the front. These are a mix of personally collected examples (such as letterheads) and those offered by Lincoln in the adverts.