royalty scrapbook (1 risultati)

Scrapbook. Condizione: Very Good. Scrapbook (10 1/4 in. x 9 in.), red, textured (mock leather) cloth, with gilt ("Scrap Book") to front. Shelf-and-edgewear. Staplebound. Just about 40 leaves (app. 80 pp.) of thick, grey cardstock. Each page contains neatly cut-out images of royalty throughout the world, with handwritten identification beneath each image, in blue or black ink. Most are glossy and appear to have been clipped from a magazine. Images are nicely laid out, most pages showing three or so images, and some with one large image. What a labor of love this 1911 scrapbooker has left us! Lovely thin ladies with their dogs, staring down their straight noses, from their crenaline or ruffs, atop carriages or horses, in cities or on the dales, in heavily-medalled uniform or tophats or furs, or jewels, grasping golf clubs, at hunt, perched upon a settee, gazing downward from a wrought-iron balcony. All those humans, elevated through history or power or wealth of family to the status of higher than the rest. Since assembling this rather worshipful offering to the elevated world of royalty, the general trend of obeisance to the crowned or titled has, with the lightning-speed transformation of all once known and minimally predictable, shifted to a collecting fascination with the everyday lives of everyday people.