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A fine example of a Victorian illuminated manuscript, with 48 highly decorated leaves in a style influenced by the chromolithographed gift books of Owen Jones and Henry Noel Humphreys, and in the original binding by Gruel. It is signed by Marie Louise Pelline, Countess Granville (1812-1860), daughter of Emmerich Josef Wolfgang Heribert, Duke of Dalberg, first married to Sir Richard Acton, and later to the 2nd Earl Granville. See illustration at page 122.