ALBUM 1 . Oblong Folio. 320 x 435 mm. An Album containing approximately 75 views of the exterior and interior of Chequers Court and its environs, plus correspondence, inc. Clement Atlee, Family Tree, and general history of the house. Half calf with gilt lettering, binding broken and much used. A number of these items were reproduced in Norma Major’s History of the House published in 1997; some associated correspondence from Norma Major is included.

ALBUM 2. The Chequers Court Visitors Book, March 1889-October 1891. Approx. 37 pp. of dated entries plus photographs, correspondence and press cuttings spanning the 20th century. 4to. 265x210mm. full calf. Gilt lettering, binding loose, generally much used.

ALBUMS 3 & 4. ASTLEY, Lady Florence, nee Conyngham, 1866-1946, and ASTLEY, Hubert Delaval, 1860-1925. Illustrator.
Two folio albums 380 x 290 mm. & 370 x 280 mm. Albums containing an extraordinary record of visitors to Country Houses, c. 1887-1896, with numerous photographs and details of shooting, racing and sailing parties with fine watercolour illustrations throughout by Hubert Astley. The Houses included Mentmore, Henham Hall, Chequers, Nun Appleton, Somerleyton, Waddesdon, Melton Constable, Wycombe Abbey, Blenheim Palace, Cornbury, West Dean Park and many other. Both albums contain multiple signed entries of 'notable personages' of the time, names include. Astley, Carrington, Rothschild, Eleanor and Reginald Brett, Duke of Marlborough and members of the Spencer-Churchill Family. George and Victoria May, Prince and Princess of Wales with photographs, Henry James, Grenfell, Paget, Grosvenor etc.
Typed notes taken by Joan Astley in August 1977, from Sammy, Lord Hood. Red. Cloth and leatherette binding, loose and much worn.
Further images available on request.