Victorian Photo/Cartes Des Visites Album

England, 1880. ALBUM. Victorian Photo/Cartes-Des-Visites Album. England: [n.d.c.a. 1880].

A Victorian photo album with eighteen double-sided thick leaves. Album is complete with 52 portraits including twenty photographs in 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 inch size, and thirty-two cartes-des-visites in 5 1/4 x 2 1/2 inch size. Contemporary full navy calf over padded boards. Rebacked to style. Front board elaborately stamped and tooled in gilt. Back board ruled in gilt. Each board with a piece of a brass clap, incomplete without the clasping mechanism. All edges gilt. Light blue textured endpapers. Front leaf decorated in a colored floral design. A small amount of dampstaining to the first album page, not affecting photos. A few photo holders have small tears, but all are holding very well. Overall a wonderful example of a great collection.

This album starts off with a large portrait of Queen Victoria circa 1880s. It also has photographs of numerous scientists including Darwin, Pasteur, Von Liebig, Faraday, and T.H. Huxley. Statesmen including Lincoln, Bismark, Gladstone and Disreali. Other important photos include Florence Nightingale, actress Edna May, Cardinal Newman, and the Duke of Devonshire among others.

HBS 69143.

$2,500.