Green leatherette and pencil holder, and green leather spine (71/2 x 10 5/8 ins: paper 7 x 10 ins). 15 folios left, including six of blue paper, some with pencil sketches including: two faint of bare-breasted witches and a preliminary compositional sketch labelled 'Macbeth' for the oil ‘Macbeth and the Witches’ (1851; for I. K. Brunel’s ‘Shakespeare Room’ and now in Leicester Art Gallery); 'Ramsgate' (possibly by George Stanfield) 'Loch Nairne (?) and a preliminary CS sketch in a ruled measured frame (3.5 x 5.25 in.) for his finished watercolour of the 'Britannia' leaving Liverpool for Boston in 1842 carrying his friend Charles Dickens, as engraved in Dickens’s 'American Notes' (1848 popular edition: the finished watercolour for this remains with the Dickens family). Includes a smaller sheet used for mixing watercolour, a tracing of a river boat and a modern slip of paper inscribed 'Drawings by Clarkson Stanfield RA and his son George Stanfield'. From the studio collection of Clarkson Stanfield RA, acquired 9.04 (Bagshawe Collection). [PvdM 5.06]