[Tylor, nee Harris (Isabella)].
In the Days of Old. A Quaker Child, by ‘Granny’.
An illustrated typescript account of the author’s childhood, written for her Grandchildren in the hope that ‘when they read them, they will think with love of their old Grandmother’.
Kensington, 1893, [4], 65, [2] pages, interleaved with fourteen original watercolour plates (by Mr Meadon of Brighton and Miss Horton of Chelsea et al.), a 19th century birth certificate and four mounted photographs. Several family inscriptions. As a child, Isabella lived in a village near London - Stoke Newington. ‘The name meant ‘The Village in the Wood’. It was then quite amongst the fields, with one long irregular street out to the main road to the North.’ …. ‘We had a nice old-fashioned house covered with Virginian Creeper, and behind there was a delightful garden with a lawn full of old trees’. In later life, Isabella moved to Sussex, one of the pictures depicting ‘Granny in her hall at Middle House, Mayfield’ (now a restaurant). A painting in the same style, found online, shows Isabella sitting in Middle House and describes her as ‘the original owner’. She had moved to Kensington when the book was produced. All edges gilt, full morocco binding with gilt tooling (some rubbing).