Description
Edinburgh, c.1850s. 8vo (209 x 133mm.), 49 photographs, comprising 20 SALTED PAPER PRINTS (average 110 x 90mm.) and 29 ALBUMEN PRINTS (average 160 x 120mm.), loosely inserted in an album with blank leaves of wove paper (no visible watermarks), later pencil captions on the mounts (and some later pencil captions on the reverse of the images), nineteenth century blue cloth, album lacking backstrip, lower cover detached
Footnote
Note: EARLY SCOTTISH PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHS, including many members of the Royal Scottish Academy: Sir George Harvey (1806-1876), Horatio McCulloch (1806-1867), John Syme (1795-1861), Sir Daniel Macnee (1806-1882), Gourlay Steell (1819-1894), Samuel Bough (1822-1878), Sir John Everett Millais (1829-1896), ?James Drummond (1816-1877), and a photograph of John Graham Gilbert's 1854 portrait of Sir John Watson Gordon (1788-1864); together with portraits of the physician Sir Robert Christison (1797-1882), the geographer and cartographer Alexander Keith Johnson (1804-1871), and minister Rev. Dr Patrick Clason (1789-1867), and other unidentified portraits of men, women and children.