Lot 90
Annan, Thomas
[Photographs of Glasgow and Clyde valley]
Auction: 16 June 2026 from 10:00 BST
Description
Photographs of Glasgow College. [Glasgow: Thomas Annan, c.1865]. Oblong folio (27.5 x 39.5cm), cover title, 20 mounted albumen prints with no explanatory text, various sizes (average approx. 13cm wide by 18cm high if vertical, 18cm wide by 14cm high if horizontal), contemporary green cloth gilt, plate one heavily foxed, minor spotting to the remaining plates, a few show some edge fading, binding sprung, some rubbing to corners, dust soiling to endpapers, front endpaper creased, with photocopies of a title page (dated 1866) and contents leaves loosely inserted;
[Photographs of the Exhibition of Portraits on Loan at the New Galleries of Art, Corporation Buildings, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow]. [Glasgow, 1868]. 2 sets of albumen prints by Thomas Annan, first set comprises a folio volume (32.5 x 24.5cm), half red leather, 80 leaves of card with gilt edges, 320 albumen prints (4 per leaf) carte-de-visite size (approx. 9 x 6cm), with pencil numbers written below each print corresponding to the printed catalogue to the exhibition published by Annan in 1868, some dust soiling to endpapers and initial leaves, bookplate on front pastedown of John B. Cowan (1829-1887), professor of Materia Medica at the University of Glasgow; second set comprises 2 quarto volumes (25.4 x 16.5cm), half straight grain red morocco, with specially-printed title pages ‘Photographs from the Glasgow Portrait Gallery MDCCCLXVIII,’ volume 1 ‘Ancient Glasgow’ containing 96 leaves with one albumen print per leaf, carte-de-visite size (approx. 9 x 6cm), with pencil numbers written below each print corresponding to the printed catalogue to the exhibition published by Annan in 1868, manuscript table of contents, volume 2 ‘Modern Glasgow’ containing 83 leaves (with one albumen print per leaf), bindings worn and scuffed with some dust soiling to preliminary leaves, with bookplate on front pastedown of John Oswald Mitchell (1826-1904), Glasgow antiquarian;
[Album of Views of Hamilton Palace and Surrounding Clyde Valley Area]. [Glasgow, 1860/70s]. Oblong folio (24 x 32 cm), contemporary blue cloth, album containing 13 albumen prints (various sizes between approx. 15 x 21cm and 17.5 x 21cm) most with pencil captions, pasted on thick paper inner margins strengthened with linen, 4 leaves blank, some light dust soiling, binding worn and discoloured at extremities, armorial bookplate of James Craig Annan (1864-1946), Thomas Annan's son, on front pastedown;
and 3 copies of A.G. Forbes. Photographs of Glasgow, with Descriptive Letterpress. Glasgow: Andrew Duthie, [c.1867], illustrated with 13 albumen prints by Thomas Annan, original publisher's cloth bindings gilt;
Photographs of the Clyde, with Descriptive Letterpress. Glasgow: Andrew Duthie, [c.1867], illustrated with 12 albumen prints by Thomas Annan, Mauchline 'Stuart' tartanware binding (9)
Provenance
The estate of the late Eric Sloane.
Footnote
Photographs of Glasgow College was commissioned by the Principal of Glasgow College before the move to the new Glasgow University at Gilmore Hill. This copy appears to be the earlier state of this volume as plate two shows the pissoir on the left of the College entrance and the shades of the camera tripod to the right, the pissoir was removed in the later state of the image. A larger series of 41 photographs of the College was published as Memorials of the Old College of Glasgow in 1871.
