[Album containing mounted cutouts from three publications of engravings by Moritz Retzsch] / [compiled and assembled by "Letitia Louisa MacGregor, nee Kerr"], [187-?]

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[Album containing mounted cutouts from three publications of engravings by Moritz Retzsch] / [compiled and assembled by "Letitia Louisa MacGregor, nee Kerr"], [187-?]

"Album ... by 'Letitia Louisa MacGregor, née Kerr' (autograph, verso of front fly). Album consists of cut, uncolored plates from three titles of the 'Retzsch's Outlines' series: Goethe's Faust, Fridolen, and The Dragon of the Isle of Rhodes."--Insert. Album dates from 1870 at the earliest, since Lady Letitia Louisa Kerr married Courtlandt George MacGregor in 1870, and she signed the album with her married name.

1 v. ([43] leaves) : chiefly mounted ill., port. ; 14 x 20 cm.

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