England 1800's scrapbook...any ideas? filled with art and poems

I am going to attach all original works of art in this next message..i know it's hard to tell from the pictures...

 

These all are in pencil or other types of medium...you can see the strokes in the art...there are a few left out...because I just couldn't tell..

 

People used to memorize poetry as a routine thing. Perhaps each of these is something especially meaningful to the person who made the entry. Sappy & morbid as these verses are, they're a lot better than the rhymes friends put in my autograph book.

 

Sorry everyone...it's so much in one book...and confusing...and I can hardly decipher some of it...and so many pages ...I tried to put as much in here...albeit everywhere ugh..sorry again. It was hard to keep track of where it loaded, and they didn't load in order when I put them on my computer...yikes

 

There are W. bartlett printed/litho/engraved...not sure of which...also not sure if it helps at all...but some of the art paper in there has a seal thomas patent of grenwick...then extra supfine london board paper...not sure if that has any relevance

 

mansell... I had found..joseph mansell..victorian prints...cards/valentines... and there are quite a few flower art...and cards...that look like it fits with him..what confuses the heck out of me..is the multiple other signatures/art... ect...

 

I just wonder if this was a printing company book from the time period...of original, and produced printings?

 

The very last one with the 2 little girls, if I look closer with my loupe I am not 100 percent sure it is original...

 

Hmmm....actually there are also 2 colored etchings in the book by George Baxter...which so far I have read... Mansell bought a license from Baxter for printing methods..

 

It's sort of a commonplace book/sketchbook/scrapbook. I don't think owner was trying to make it into any one consistent sort of book. E.g.,

https://www.amazon.com/Victorian-Scrapbook-Tatham-Elizabeth-1849/dp/B01NCOQIEY

 

Absolutely. Agree with above. It's a commonplace book of sorts. Assembled by a young Scottish lady in the early Victorian era. And that's it for me. Don't want to be rude. But all those poorly lit, poorly cropped photographs are making me twitchy.

Debora

 

super sorry, I really did try...even tried shifting myself book while taking pictures. I guess I just suck at it. Not use to trying to upload/load pictures...I feel old and technologically disabled. Yikes

 

Fascinating stuff. There is a Gateshead in South East England close to Dover and Canterbury. My Dad's sister lived there and I visited as a youngster growing up in England.