Description:
Portland, ME: Chisholm Bros., Sole Agents for Chas. Frey's Original Souvenir Albums of all American & Canadian Cities & Scenery, nd. ca. 1890s. Hardcover. Fair. 15 cm red hardcover with blank impressing and gold lettering. 30 b&w illustrations, not photos, in accordion fold-out style. Worn edges and boards. Spine ends chipped and rear board is loosening. One internal fold is separating. A few dark spots. Views of the falls, bridges, Signorini Maria Spelterini crossing whirlpool rapids on rope, Belleni crossing Niagara on a tight rope, Capt. Webb's fatal swim, Burning Spring, interior of ferry stairway, Indian family with papoose in Indian cradle, winter scenes, etc.
Chicago Album [World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago 1492 - 1892; 1893] (Chas Frey's Original Souvenir Albums of all American & Canadian Cities & Sceneries) by Chas. Frey (Charles) - 1893
by Chas. Frey (Charles)
Chicago Album [World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago 1492 - 1892; 1893] (Chas Frey's Original Souvenir Albums of all American & Canadian Cities & Sceneries)
by Chas. Frey (Charles)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
Chisholm, Bros. , Portland ME, 1893. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Very good minus. Oblong quarto, 6 1/4 x 9 1/2" tall, 24 panels in continuous accordion fold pages photographic reproductions, gilt titles and decoration on embossed red cloth. A very nice souvenir album over all, but cover cloth somewhat soiled with rubbing to the extremities, fore-corner tips through to boards, interior clean, photographs sharp, the outer fore-edges slightly foxed, one page edge bumped.
- Bookseller Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC (US)
- Format/Binding Hardcover
- Book Condition Used - Very good minus
- Quantity Available 1
- Edition First Edition thus
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Chisholm, Bros. , Portland ME
- Date Published 1893
- Keywords History; Americana; Chicago; Chas Frey; World's Columbian Exposition; 1892; 1893; Souvenir Album; Nineteenth Century (19th); Ephemera; World Fair