(Arthur Henry Patterson, Great Yarmouth.) Two early 20th Cen...

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(Arthur Henry Patterson, Great Yarmouth.) Two early 20th Century commonplace albums containing 12 original pen & ink and pen, ink & watercolour sketches by the Yarmouth born Broadland Naturalist and writer Arthur Henry Patterson (1857-1935), the albums having belonged to a Margaret Wilkerson of 28 Trafalgar Road, Great Yarmouth, and with entries spanning the period 1903-1918, the first album with pages approx 16 x 19cm, 84 pages of manuscript entries in total including many humourous pen & ink and pen, ink and watercolour sketches, including 8 full page original sketches by Patterson, comprising: pen, ink & watercolour depicting a broadland bird on a bullrush, signed A. Patterson and dated 1/1/1903; pen, ink & watercolour depicting a surprised looking gentleman on left, pen & ink sign on right bearing words "Try Wilkerson's Fat Producing Powders", with bird atop and cat beneath, pen & ink caption beneath "Why! bless my heart Wilkinson, I hardly knowed you!" and signed A. Patterson Jan 1903 lower left; pen, ink & watercolour depicting gentleman walking on beach with dog, pen & ink caption beneath "Love Me - Love My Dog", sea and ships in background, signed and dated lower left A. Patterson Apl 1903; pen & ink sketch depicting bird smoking a cigarette with stick under its wing at the front door of a house with name "Mr Wilkinson" on door, pen & ink caption underneath "Birdlover, I wonder how long Maggie will be?" and signed in initials by Patterson and indisctinctly dated beneath; pen, ink and watercolour depicting blue tit on branch with berries, signed A. Patterson and dated 1905, m/s words beneath in another hand; pen & ink sketch depicting a tramp and a well dressed gentleman, m/s pen & ink text beneath "Tramp. "Kind genelman, 'elp a poor man on the road ter buy a bycycle: I've got a ile-can in my bundle, en' only wants a machine!"" signed A. Patterson and dated 1905; pen & ink sketch depicting a tramp and a lady holding saucepan, m/s pen & ink text beneath "Homekeeper. "What do you want my man?" Tramp. - "Just this mam, here 'sa button; I want you to make me a shirt upon it!"", unsigned; pen & ink sketch depicting two cats at a dining table with bowl of onions, m/s pen & ink text beneath "Tom. "You know I can't eat onions!" Tally. "You'll either eat those, or nothing!"", signed A. Patterson; plus numerous other sketches, including a pen, ink & watercolour street/architectural scene of Fuller's Hill, Great Yarmouth, captioned beneath "Old Fuller's Hill", and signed and dated lower right W. Patterson, 23/9/05, this being A.H. Patterson's father William Patterson, a Norwich shoemaker, subsequently moving to Great Yarmouth rows, father of Patterson and 8 other siblings, member of the Primitive Methodists and described as rather a stern figure; numerous other mainly humorous sketches, prose entries etc, some related to soldiers/WW1, names of contributors include Charles Munford, Maud Munford, Margaret Wilkerson, Sidney Grapes, Gladys Amor, C.G. Ward, Edith Bessie Baker etc etc, m/s pen, ink & watercolour decorated title page/ownership signature Margaret Wilkerson at front, possibly by Arthur Henry Patterson, contemporary calf gilt (slightly rubbed/worn); the second album with pages approx 14 x 17cm, 62 pages of manuscript entries in total including many humourous pen & ink and pen, ink and watercolour sketches, including 4 full page original sketches by Patterson, comprising: pen & ink illustrated "title page" depicting two birds looking at sign bearing words "Mag. Wilkerson 28 Trafalgar Rd kindly Return When Sketched In", signed A Patterson and dated 1912 lower right; pen & ink sketch depicting cat and snarling dog with bone between them, m/s pen & ink text beneath "A bone of contention (a grand brewing.)", signed A Patterson and dated May 1910 on left; pen & ink sketch depicting an old lady and a policman, m/s pen & ink text beneath "Old lady May! - "Mr Policeman, will you tell me what ya wear that chin-strap for?" P.C. Billy. - "Yes, mam; it's to rest my jaw on answering so many old womans questions."", signed on right A Patterson; pen & ink sketch of two shorebirds on beach in foreground with pebbles, cliffs and sea in background, signed A Patterson dated Apl. 1910; numerous pen & ink and pen, ink & watercolour sketches, many humorous, other entries/contributors include F. Tew, S. Tew, D. Gibbons, M. Gibbons, Bert Gibbons, Edward Martin Jarvis (1890-1957), Fred Brett, Ipswich, P.R. Walter, including humorous pen, ink & watercolour of a German soldier hiding in a barrel with caption beneath "If der Norfolk Yeoman haf gone by, den I kan kom out", signed in initials J.J.B. dated 2/2/18, others similar war related content, W. Hannaford Essex Regiment, well executed pen, ink & watercolour of men smoking pipes in a rowing boaton water, titled "Peace" beneath, signed G.D.G. Gt. Yarmouth 1910 lower right, pen, ink & watercolour depicting Stratton Woods, Norwich, signed S.E. Raymont Sergt. 27/6/16, other sketches beauties, soldiers, animals etc, contemporary calf gilt slightly worn, lacks backstrip, the odd leaf loose (2)