Half-page engravings of topographical views bound into two albums and annotated by Nicholas Lee Torre with descriptions of his travels in England and the Channel Islands between 1803 and 1857. The engravings (dated 1840-1851) were previously published by J. & F. Harwood, Rick & Co., W. Leppard and others, and are here arranged by place names in roughly alphabetical order. Torre records (in the 1850s in third person) his first and subsequent visits to the places depicted in the engravings, sometimes with direct references to them. He reflects on changes over time to some of the landscapes and on improvements in transport. He also names people he meets and describes church services he attends. The manuscript records numerous concerts arranged by Torre in 1843 and 1844 for John Braham and his brother Charles Braham, occasionally commenting on attendance and recording takings. Mentioned are also concerts Torre organised for the 'Infant Sappho' (Louisa Vinning), for Samuel Lover, Miss Rollo Dickson, Frederick Phillips and the American minstrel groups Ethiopian Harmonists and Ethiopian Serenaders. Other comments are more personal and include reminiscences about his honeymoon and subsequent family visits to Malvern, his elder daughter's birth in Leamington Spa, his younger daughter's confirmation at Malvern Abbey Church [sic], a visit to the Great Exhibition with his son, and his brother Charles's murder in Demerara in 1818. He recalls sighting Prince Metternich, Field Marshall Bluücher and other European dignitaries at the Radcliffe Camera, Oxford in 1814; sailing around the Isle of Wight in 1819, 1821 and 1843; visiting Valle Crucis Abbey with the Cambrian Archaeological Society in 1854 and one of the first trips on a steamer from London to Ostend in 1829. 78 engravings out of 168 are annotated, with two additional bifolia inserted one in volume 1 and one in volume 2.