Purple, blue, yellow, green, and orange leaves are bound in among the white; some pages are “embossed” with decorative frames. In addition to the written entries, some in fine penmanship, a handful of engravings are glued in, and there are two accomplished, original pencilled vignettes signed E. Wilson.

Binding: Embossed black calf, featuring a lyre surrounded by foliate designs; single gold fillet around the covers, and all edges gilt.

•  For dates relating to the sailing(s) of the John Williams, and confirmation of some of the names found in our book, see: Sydney Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List (for 1844), as found digitized at the National Library of Australia website. Binding as described above, neatly rebacked with edges lightly worn. Front pastedown with bookplate (“J.R. Buckle”). A few small spots, mostly to the clipped illustrations; one embossed leaf is tearing along and around its stamped frame. Inside back cover, a writer has used that “last page” to contemplate Last Things. A remarkably personal artifact of the English Victorian missionary-world, this album expresses faith and its era in ways variously charming, interesting, moving, and inspiring.