Crest album (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 3rd Edition. 36pp. Nearly every page complete with crests and monograms. Excellent fresh condition with over 500 items. Desirable album.

Yellow moiré silk endpapers. 27pp. of neatly pasted crests, monograms, & addresses, many identified in ink ms. Half black morocco by C. Asprey, brown cloth boards, raised bands, spine ruled in gilt; extremities rubbed, corners bumped, inner hinges split but sound. An album with neatly cut and pasted crests, monograms, and addresses, mostly removed from envelopes or letterheads. The pages are often arranged by theme, and include the crests of the Oxford Colleges, Cambridge Colleges, Military regiments and many aristocratic women. The Late Prince Albert's crest is the first to appear in the album on the leading f.e.p. verso, followed on the first text leaf by the rest of the Royal family including the Queen and all of her children: the Princess Royal (Victoria), Prince of Wales (Edward), Princess Alice, Prince Alfred, Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice. Crest albums became popular in the mid-nineteenth century, and while some crests would have been collected via letters the collector had received, there was also a market in them. This album is particularly impressive given the number of crests and monograms that have their owner identified, as many volumes like this include only the cut-out designs and not the names.…