Scrapbook

Dateca. 1806 (?)

Terms

Scrapbooks
Ink
Gilt
Leather
Paper

Dimensions23.48 × 19.67 × 2.54 cm (9 1/4 × 7 3/4 × 1 in.)

MarkingsOn front cover page, "Good morning! Marte [?] Virtue!/ Charles Sumner used to say to a school girl." Also, "Emma E.P. Holland/ Oct 8th 1866." On inside blank page, "Due Aluri cd un sospir/ Un palpito e due cer--." "Arthur Holland." is stamped on the same page.

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Arthur Holland

Object numberB1895.0002C

DescriptionLetterpress on paper; black leather binding with heavy gilt floral decoration and title. Gilt title also on title page. Throughout the book are bookplates (engravings) of various subjects; the rest of the pages are blank and were used for copying poems in manuscript. Inserted between pp 15 and 16, is a poem written on the back of a notice: "Office of H.W. Holland/ Patent Attorney/ No. 19 Court Street, Boston." Newspaper clippings (mostly poetry) are also pasted into the scrapbook. Inserted before p 40 is a pencil drawing of two little girls, on the steps of a stone arch. Inserted before p. 47, pencil drawing of a set of Gothic ruins. p. 50 is a curious drawing of various calling cards, with names and dates written on them.