Beschreibung:

Free Fronts & Autographs. A large album containing approximately 1,000 free fronts and autograph specimens, mostly early 19th century, the first leaf with cut signatures of Charles II, George I, George II (x2), George III, the album then partly arranged by occupation including Archbishops, Chancellors and Dukes, Marquesses, Earls, Viscounts, Bishops, Barons, the Prime Ministers Robert Peel Duke of Wellington and Lord Sidmouth, etc., mostly pasted 10 to a page or in similar numbers and on rectos and versos of paper leaves throughout, autograph letters of Lord Ribblesdale and the Archbishop of York tipped in at rear, plus a ticket for Thomas Lawston to attend the Coronation of Queen Victoria at Westminster Abbey, 28 June 1838 and a British Musuem Reading Room ticket, plus 4 envelopes with postage stamps (2 x Penny Red and 2 x two pence Blue), a partial alphabetical index part way through the album, armorial bookplate of Henry Roundell, stitching partly broken and contents loose in contemporary half morocco over marbled boards, worn, folio (Quantity: 1) The Rev. Henry Roundell (1824-1864) was Vicar of Buckingham from 1854 to 1862. He was married to Laura Frances Cornish in 1881, her signature appearing on the bookplate and dated 1880. Provenance: By direct family descent. Many addresses of the recipients are in Yorkshire as the Roundell home, Gledstone House, was in the deanery of Craven near Skipton, West Yorkshire.