Friendship Album: Manuscript Collection of Poetry, Numerous Contributors from St. John's Training College

primarily York, 1870s. Hardcover. Near Fine. Cloth, "The Windsor Album, Contributions Poetic, Dramatic, Literary & c." stamped in black and gilt on front board; about 8-by-10.5 inches; approx. pp. 80, full with handwritten poems (some original, some copied from Tennyson, Pope, Sewell, and more), a few drawings, 8 full-color paintings (mostly botanical), 4 sepia albumen prints (one a folding panoramic landscape, showing sailboats at harbor beneath a cliff), an acrostic, a hand-drawn map entitled "How We Were Scattered from College," and a few brochures from the school. A handsome volume, boards just a little rubbed, one leaf with a long closed tear at fore-edge. Names include Ida Pears, John Stocks of Chidswell, John Broughton, George William Smelt, W. F. Osborne, E. A. Walker, and more.