Old English Homes: A Summer's Sketch-Book
Bound volume
Old English Homes: A Summer's Sketch-Book
1876
Bound volume with Woodburytypes and albumen silver prints
Overall (closed): 11 1/8 × 8 13/16 × 1 3/8 in. (28.3 × 22.4 × 3.5 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
DescriptionPhotographically illustrated book containing 21 Woodburytypes and 2 albumen silver prints. Cover is brown and black with debossed gold lettering. Published by Sampson Low, Marston, Low and Searle and printed by Whittingham and Wilkins.
Inscriptions Debossed in gold on spine, T: OLD \ ENGLISH \ HOMES
Inscribed in white on spine, B: 1876
Debossed in gold on cover, C: OLD \ ENGLISH \ HOMES
Inscribed in white crayon on cover, TR: 1876
Inscribed in pencil on front flyleaf, TL: The Haire [?]
Inscribed in pencil (in Boyer's hand) on recto of front blank endpaper, TL: 1876 \ Rare & \ Important \ Boyer \ Illustrated with \ Woodbury types \ tho [sic] the Introduction \ says with "sketches" \ definately[?] [sic]\ B 8/49.
Inscribed in pencil (in Boyer's hand) on page 35, RC: xxx \ xxx \ Note word
Inscribed in pencil (in Boyer's hand) on recto of back blank endpaper, TL: JK Fletcher \ London. \ 8/1949 \ Boyer \ OIIIΣR \ net
Inscribed in white on spine, B: 1876
Debossed in gold on cover, C: OLD \ ENGLISH \ HOMES
Inscribed in white crayon on cover, TR: 1876
Inscribed in pencil on front flyleaf, TL: The Haire [?]
Inscribed in pencil (in Boyer's hand) on recto of front blank endpaper, TL: 1876 \ Rare & \ Important \ Boyer \ Illustrated with \ Woodbury types \ tho [sic] the Introduction \ says with "sketches" \ definately[?] [sic]\ B 8/49.
Inscribed in pencil (in Boyer's hand) on page 35, RC: xxx \ xxx \ Note word
Inscribed in pencil (in Boyer's hand) on recto of back blank endpaper, TL: JK Fletcher \ London. \ 8/1949 \ Boyer \ OIIIΣR \ net
