Ladies journal with inlaid and painted papier-mache covers
$250.00
1 in stock
Description
Ladies journal with inlaid and painted papier-mache covers. Item 1379.
The front cover of this beautiful book is made of papier-mache and has been inlaid with mother-of-pearl, painted and gilded whereas the back is unadorned. The colours of the floral spray are still bright and vibrant, especially where the painting is done over two pieces of mother-of-pearl which gives an iridescence to the leaves. The height is 230 mm and the width is 155 mm. It is in remarkably good condition with only the loss of some of the gilding and the pile from the velvet spine covering. It belonged to a Miss Annie Craven and contains stories, poems, good wishes and witty epigrams from her parents, friends, relatives and, perhaps a beau or two. The ink has faded in some of the writings, but others remain as vivid as when they were written in the late 1870’s and early 1880’s. Some of the copperplate script is superb. Whilst the book is English, Miss Craven was born in Sandhurst, in Victoria, in 1858. The first entry in this book is a declaration of love signed F.D.J 1/8/79. On the 19/10/ 1882, Annie Craven married Frederick Douglass Jones in Sandhurst.
