Franacis Frith in Egypt and Palestine; a Victorian Photographer Abroad by Nickel, Douglas R

Princeton and Oxford; (2004): Princeton University Press. First Edition. Quarto. First printing. 239pp. In 1856m Francis Frith set out on the first of three tours of Egypt and the Holy Lands. He traveled up the Nile and then on to the Sinai, Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon. He took exquisite photographs of ruins, landscapes, and legendary sites. He published his photographs in England and America in a variety of formats. This book, the first to place Frith's Egyptian and Levantine images in cultural context revealing the distinct meanings these "topographical" pictures held for the photographer and his Victorian audience. A fine bright copy bound in pictorial paper covered boards backed in brown cloth, spine lettering gilt, in a fine pictorial dust jacket. No names, plates, tears or bumps.