Lot 212
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Bede, Cuthbert [Bradley, Edward] - Rosslyn Chapel - Knights Templar
Auction: 16 September 2009 at 12:00 BST
Description
The visitor's handbook to Rosslyn and Hawthornden. Edinburgh: R. Grant & Son, [c.1864]. 8vo, 12 mounted albumen prints, contemporary calf gilt, rubbed at edges, a few light spots
Footnote
Provenance: Ink inscription by [4th Earl of] Rosslyn, dated May 23rd 1866. A number of small photographs enclosed of the funeral of the ?? Earl of Rosslyn in 1939.
The Rev. Edward Bradley (1827-1889) adopted the name Cuthbert Bede, a combination of the two patron saints of Durham, top seperate his career as a comic prose writer from his work as a monister of the church. Bradley' published Photographic pleasures in 1859, a volume that depiects the joys and difficulties inherent in the early processes of photography. In the 1860's Bradley eventually became a practicing photographer [he mentioned taking lessons in a letter to Henry Peach Robinson in 1863], becoming sufficent in skills to illustrate his own volume in 1864/ 65, A visitor's handbook to Rosslyn and Hawthornden.