Scrapbook / commonplace book, late 19th & early 20th century - Eva Bell-Irving
£650
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 11 October 2017 at 11:00 BST
Description
26.5 x 21cm, decorative green morocco gilt with gilt doublures and pink damask endpapers with the name 'Eva' to the upper cover, containing manuscript quotations, poetry, photographs of children playing at Marchwiel, drawings and watercolours, Second World War newspaper clippings, signatures including the laid-in signature of Garibaldi, and letters from Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg and Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine (signed Princess Henry of Prussia), addressed to Mrs Bell Irving
Footnote
Note: The owner of this book seems to have been Eva Bell-Irving (née Eva Gertrude Piercy). A memorial poem for Mr James J. Bell-Irving is pasted into the book. Bell-Irving was a Scottish businessman and was a and member of the Executive Council and Legislative Council of Hong Kong. Bell-Irving married Eva Gertrude Piercy in Hong Kong in 1890, and the numerous pieces of material relating to Hong Kong in the book also suggest that this was compiled by Eva.