49. BELGRAVE LITERARY & SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION. Two labels, one noting the terms for subscribers, and the opening hours of the library; the other a presentation label for a book donated by J.C. Hunter, Esq. Both bear the number C5. Mounted on later paper. 110mm x 90mm / 55mm x 90mm. c1840. £25.00 + vat
50. SKETCHBOOK. An accomplished mid 19th century sketchbook of pen and sepia wash drawings of houses, churches, mills, and rural scenery. The twenty-seven drawings, dated 1843 and 1844, open with views in Ramsgate and Kent, including a fine double-page panorama of Ramsgate Harbour. The artist, identified only as J.J. then travels westward to Knowbury, Downton Castle, and Shropshire. In a contemporary dark green half roan sketching book with the label of Ackermann and Co on the inner front board. Hand-written paper label on the upper cover, noting the locations. Corners bumped. oblong 4to. 185mm x 270mm. 1843-1844. £480.00
The views include: Ramsgate Harbour Minster Church, Isle of Thanet Pegwell Bay [Ramsgate] Entrance into Ramsgate from Broadstairs [noting the Jews Synagogue and Rabbi’s House] St Mary’s Church, Stone, Kent. Mr Huggins’s Almshouses, Northfleet. Whitton Old Manor House. Near Knowbury Whitton, near Knowbury Scene at Knowbury Cottages at Knowbury Stoke Castle, Shropshire Burford, near Tenbury Brockleton Grove, Rev. J. Miller. Bromfield Church, near Oakley Park. Mill on the Fram - Downton Castle Scene at Downton Castle Downton Castle Oaks at Oakley Park