Doilies.- [Album of Jamaican dried ferns with lace-bark doilies], octagonal leaves comprising first leaf with mounted lozenge-shaped letterpress description and 12 designs of specimens of dried ferns mounted beneath doily of fine lace-bark and cut-out fibrous border, loose as issued between blank leaves, some light browning and offsetting, bound in stiff card covers tied with blue silk ribbon, upper cover with central panel and border of mounted fern specimens on blue silk beneath lace-bark & fibrous cut-outs, a little soiled with some slight damage to cut-outs, lacking ties, small 4to (190mm. diameter), Jamaica, [late 19th century].

⁂ An excellent example of a scarce work, rarely found with all 12 designs and so intact. The introductory description reads, "The Doyleys are made of the bark of the Lagetta-Lintearia tree, growing in Jamaica. The borders are cut out of the Spatha, the sheath of the fruit of the Mountain-Cabbage palm. The Ferns are collected from different parts of Jamaica. The Doyleys are sold for the benefit of the Orphanage for Girls at Halfway Tree, Jamaica."