Finely Bound Red Morocco Album circa 1820 (mostly blank).

Hardcover. Near Fine. Quite handsome full crimson straight-grain morocco album, mostly blank. Covers with central rectangular panels outlined with rolls in gilt and blind, these surrounded by an elaborate palmate roll border in gilt; spine in four compartments, each tooled in gilt; broad gilt dentelles, green silk paste-downs and endpapers, all edges gilt. 4 3/8 x 7 1/8 inches (11.5 x 18 cm); approximately 150 ff. with each leaf hand-ruled recto and verso with a system of six staves, surrounded by decorative rules in blue and orange; approximately 15 leaves completed with religious music, a mostly blank album (a few leaves at the start removed). One later piece is dated 1874.