HERCULANEUM, PAESTUM AND STABIAE, LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY ALBUM OF 45 WATERCOLOURS

folio (392 x 270mm.), calligraphic pen and ink title, and index leaf with numbered list of drawings, 45 watercolour and gouache paintings on paper (various sizes, average 215 x 180mm., or the reverse), each mounted on paper, recto only, most with paper guards, early twentieth-century brown crushed morocco gilt, spine in compartments with raised bands gilt, gilt edges, some drawings becoming loose, two drawings torn, some guards torn or soiled, occasional spotting, covers detached, slightly worn

Mitchell Henry (1826-1910), Kylemore Castle, Ireland, armorial bookplate

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This album contains 43 paintings, by several hands, of Herculaneum, and one each of Paestum and Stabiae.