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Album or Scrapbook of Ballooning Prints, Compiled by F. W. Hope, Mostly 1783-1852

Inventory Number 13002


Item type
Object
Provenance
Transferred from the Hope Collection in 1941. F. W. Hope's zoological and print collections were given to Oxford University in 1850.
Physical material
Paper
Card
Vellum
Object type
Print
Dimensions
Height: 477mm Width: 335mm Depth: 30mm
Inventory No
13002

Description

Album bound in quarter-vellum and marbled paper boards. A collection chiefly of prints and printed ephemera relating to ballooning, compiled by F. W. Hope, perhaps mainly in the 1830s, though the contents include much 18th-century material, and the main dated items span 1783-1852.

For fuller descriptive and historical commentary see narratives.