Album Ephemera, Signed (5 results)

Illustrated. (illustrator). Very Good (covers nice; contents clean & tight). 4to., red pictorial wraps; 96 pages First Edition. Signed by Shnitzspahn on the half- tile page. Signed.

No Binding. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 5 x 7 inch two-sided, two-color card promoting the new album Phantom Power by The Tragically Hip. The card is SIGNED by the late Gord Dowie with a blue ballpoint pen, presumably in 1998, when the album was released. Also included is a 2.5 x 5 inch voucher to claim a ticket to a concert by the band at Bill's Bar, Boston, Thursday August 13. The band played the bar August 10 through 13, 1998, and recordings of those concerts are readily available online. The card and the ticket are remarkably well-preserved and share the art from the album. The card is bright and crisp with sharp corners. The card and ticket voucher are unaffected by the sun. The corners of the voucher have softened. Phantom Power, the band's 6th album, was released by Sire Records 07.14.98, a month prior to the concerts in Boston, and songs include "Poets" and "Bobcaygeon". A 25th anniversary boxed set edition of the album was released in 2023. Please see our catalog Musicians - Signed which includes a book autographed by Robbie Robertson, Donald Fagen and Mitch Ryder. Signed by Author(s).

[Women Education] [Handwritten] A schoolgirl's memory album, with 20 handwritten entries and 39 pieces of ephemera, 1842-1877. Signed by owner "C.F. Key / January 19th 1842" on first end page. A memorabilia, recording many aspects of the first major movement of women's education in the United States brings depth to a movement that was groundbreaking in its time, but today is largely at risk of disappearing from the historical record. 9 x 7.5 in. Green marbleized boards with red leather binding. 64 pages. 20 handwritten inscriptions plus 24 pieces of paper ephemera, primarily engravings and images from newspaper clippings, such as one depicting "Her majesty leaving Buckingham Palace, June 28, 1838" and medieval images such as "Marriage of Henry the 6th."Includes 15 color wax seas from friends and schoolmates, mostly women. Seals include music ledgers, personalized initials, trees, and animals such as dogs and lions. Large hand-drawn pencil illustration of a small thatched-roof building in a forest. Memory albums held autographs, sentiments, and reminiscences of friends and schoolmates, similar to yearbooks today. Handwritten entries on topics such as Happiness and The Bride. Many entries have to do with marriage and domestic life, such as "A Lady's Choice of Husband": "The man who would my heart engage, Must not be forty years of age, His statue of the middle size, His features pleasing to my eyes. His brown must seldom wear a frown, In manners neither fop nor clown." One entry it titled "Making Love": "What's making love said Jane, what can it mean, Pray Charles can you make love, I'n now sixteen, Errors I make, make scones, make amends, Make samplers, tippets, and make bosom friends, But as to making love; I really doubt it. At least I know not how to set about it. Ah charming girl said Charles, that kind confession bespeaks a stock of love in your possession, Love is not science, by not art is shown, But the most sweet confession ever known." Binding loose with loss to foot of spine. First 2 pages and last 3 pages detached. In good condition. Signed.

Victorian friendship album and travel scrapbook belonging to Emilie Sophia Dudding (1843?) of Lincoln, England, signed and dated in her hand 1 August 1860 on the opening leaf. Measuring 7" x 9.5", the volume contains approximately 95 double-sided pages, all present, forming a vivid, tactile record of a young woman's friendships and Continental movements during the early 1860s. Dudding was the youngest daughter of John and Susanna Dudding; John is described as a "Solicitor late of Lincoln" in Emilie's 1869 marriage notice. Orphaned in her mid-teens, Emilie appears to have spent significant time abroad (and possibly in Ireland), perhaps with a relative or her older sister Julia, whose name appears repeatedly in the book. She later married Edward William Evans, "Captain of the 19th Regiment," in 1869, and had two children, Julia Sophia and Edward. The album begins as a traditional autograph/friendship book and evolves into a richly embellished travel scrapbook. Early inscriptions are tied to British place names; from 186264 they shift to German and Austrian datelines and names (often still in English), and by 1865 entries are datelined Montreux, Switzerland. The contents also include souvenirs tied to the Dublin International Exposition (1865), suggesting attendance at major cultural fairs and resorts of the period. There are beautiful colored lithographic scraps, many with hand-color, featuring alpine scenery, florals, and decorative motifs. Numerous pressed flowers and plant specimens, arranged both singly and in clusters on colored sheets, often framed with lace-paper doilies. Three original drawings, including a pencil alpine/architectural church scene and additional landscape work. Creative layouts incorporating postage stamps and faux-correspondence designs, including at least one U.S. stamp. 24 albumen photographs (some commercial, most personal photographs; about half miniature). Subjects include two studio images of Tyrolean Shooters / native costume groups, a choir at the English church in Montreux, family or resort-tourist groupings, and scenic keepsakes from the Alps and beyond. A lively and unusually coherent example of a mid-Victorian woman's coming-of-age through travel, knitting together friendship, tourism, and the era's scrapbook artistry. Original black embossed cloth with gilt central ornament; blue/gilt spine label. Both covers detached; binding shaken with heavy edge/corner wear, rubbing, and scuffing; spine ends frayed. Internally a mix of colored papers (green/blue/yellow) with expected light toning and occasional faint staining. A few pressed plant specimens are loose, else all items present and pages intact. Despite exterior wear, the interior presentation is strong and complete.

Large album, 30 x 24cm. Approximately 220 pages, 40 unused, with a quantity of additional tipped-in and loosely inserted pamphlets and ephemera. Featuring most prominently are Rosalind Howard, The Radical Countess of Carlisle, and her husband, George Howard. The former in terms of her speeches and appearances in campaigning for women's suffrage, temperance and the Liberal Party, the latter with his artistic contributions, his own & others, and occasional speeches. Original art comprises approximately 60 varied watercolours, pen & ink and pencil sketches. With two signed early works by George Howard dated 1856 and 1861, the first in pencil, the second a finished pen & ink drawing with verse. The young George already showing the pre-Raphaelite influence upon his work in terms of both stye and subject, the 1861 drawing in particular is reminiscent of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Lady Cecilia Howard appears frequently, as does her husband, Charles Henry Roberts, the Radical Liberal M.P., who worked closely with Rosalind. Charles Howard, Viscount Morpeth makes more cameo appearances, and a younger daughter of the extensive family, Lady Dorothy Howard is an increasing presence towards the rear of the album, including some cuttings regarding a trip to Boston with her father to further the Temperance Movement there. The impression given is that the compiler was Rosalind Howard, and that the initial purpose of the scrapbook was to document the political activities of herself and her husband, with possibly later additions and certainly later annotations by many of their children, though given that the content peters out entirely around 1915, it is quite possible that it was a work in gradual progress by Rosalind until her death in 1921. In addition to the two signed George Howard works there is a later large pen and ink drawing annotated: "Bournemouth by Father 1877", with another finished pen and ink hunting scene loosely inserted at the same point, unsigned but almost certainly by George Howard. There are also numerous sketches in pencil, pen or watercolour, at least 10 of which are probably attributable to George Howard. Of the rest, one is a juvenile effort by Dorothy Howard, annotated as much by her mother, Rosalind, another is an accomplished pen & ink drawing dated 1888 and signed by Violet Ogilvy, some look likely to be by Cecilia Howard, particularly those of her husband, Charles Roberts and some are certainly juvenile efforts by various of the Howard children, and one might be by Cecilia's daughter, a very young Rosa Winifred Roberts. 48 pages are devoted to Rosalind Howard, cuttings covering her active engagement with politics, women's suffrage and the temperance movement, beginning in 1889, with many of her speeches, as well as articles about her. Additionally, there are three tipped-in pamphlets: an 8-page Brampton District County Council Election Address dated Feb 9th 1889, which must be one of her earliest official public speeches, a 12-page Address by Lady Carlisle on the occasion of The Inauguration of the Carlisle Women's Liberal Association July 1890, and a 13-page Speech by Lady Carlisle at the Unveiling of a Portrait of Mr Gladstone in the Newcastle Liberal Club, dated Aug 18th 1891 and signed to the upper cover by Cecilia Roberts. Other noteworthy pasted in content includes: 3 bookplates by Robert Anning Bell, a small decorated broadside poem On The Queen's Visit to Castle Howard Aug 28th 1850, a 1915 copy of Mabel Ince's The Soldier's Dream and an always welcome appearance of Punch's Political Lady-Cricketers from May 28, 1892. The album is currently in poor condition, the rear board is detached, the front board nearly so and the spine strip has been lost entirely, the boards are quite stained and battered. The contents are slightly foxed and stained, more so to the early and later pages, 2 pages have been removed and half of another has been torn off. An active, clearly organically compiled, rarely chronological impre.