[ILLMAN BROTHERS, ENGRAVERS AND PRINTERS]

[An Unused Album]

[New York]: Illman Brothers, Engravers and Printers, No date. Cloth. 8vo (8" x 6 3/4"); [2], [50], [2] leaves; blind-stamped brown cloth over board, gilt-stamped center lozenge with a rondel of leaves surrounding the work "Album"; yellow endpapers and 2 yellow fly-leaves front and rear; 10 engraved plates interleaved with 40 colored paper leaves of pink, blue, and yellow; boards lightly faded, fraying to head of spine, lightly shaken; very good. Very good. Item #1917

A very pretty unused Album in the popular mid-19th century style. Ten engraved illustrated plates are interleaved with blank pages for friends to write sentiments. The plates are titled "At Mama's Toilet," picturing a young girl in a dressing gown powdering her face; "Letting in the New Year" pictures a large home in the woods with four men standing outside the door; "The First Pants" illustrates a mother dressing a young boy in a pair of short pants with a dog watching and wagging its tail; "At the Preserves" pictures a young girl eating jam from her finger; "Caught in the Snow" is a picture of two finely dressed women walking in the snow near a meadow, a small dog running at their feet;
Two Little Monkeys" pictures an organ girl and her monkey; and "The Kittens" pictures two white kittens playing in a pile of cut flowers.

The Illman Brothers, an engraving and printing firm in New York City, produced finely done steel plate engravings in the mid-19th century.

Price: $75.00