Scrapbooks Album of Mary Shelly 1889 (owner's inscription on ffep), c.20 pages of drawings,...
Scrapbooks Album of Mary Shelly 1889 (owner's inscription on ffep), c.20 pages of drawings, cartoons, landscapes and similar, various mediums, variously signed (principally "Evelyn Bott 1890" and "Mary Shelly"). With a scrapbook containing a wide variety of material, such as signatures from envelopes, business cards, manuscript poems, photographs, prints and drawings. There appears to be a German and diplomatic lean, with the cards of the British envoy to the King of Wurtemburg and the Prince of Waldburg-Wurzach, but there are other suggestive inclusions, like a drawing of a scene labelled 'Napoli de Romania' and of a Turkish soldier, dated 1883. And The Yateley Pictures - a short book of 11 leaves with cartoons in silhouette on the recto, describing a journey to see an Aunt in Yateley, 1903. A charming and attractive moment of family history full of delightful details, such as the children's hats or making boats out of chips with feathers stuck in them.