£160
COUNTRY HOUSE ALBUM: large late Victorian album of approx 180 photographs, largely albumen prints of various sizes, a few cyanotypes and other processes, depicting country house life around Joyce Grove, Nettlebed, Oxfordshire, 1890-1900, domestic and university life, a few sporting and hunting photos, many annotated with sitters and locations identified, images mounted to thick card leaves in elephant folio album of period, dark half morocco gilt, rubbed, contents generally sound.
In 1903 Robert Fleming, Scottish banker and grandfather of Bond author Ian Fleming, bought Joyce Grove, demolishing the original house shown in these images, commissioning architect C E Mallows in 1908 to build the house which still stands on the site today. (1)
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21.6% inc VAT*
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25.2% inc VAT*
