Albums
Collection of Victorian photograph and commonplace books
£378
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
Album containing photographs, some signed, of early 20th century performers, including Gertrude Elliott, Zoe Gordon, Dahlia Gordon, Martin Harvey, Pauline Chase, and others, with further photographs depicting nurses at the Second General Military Hospital, Craigleith, Edinburgh, during the First World War in a cream album, worn;
c.135 Egyptian photographs, each around 5.5 x 8cm, lain into an album;
Scrap/commonplace album initialled ‘JAS’, including various illustrations and four coloured copies of murals in Pompeii;
Commonplace book of Elgin M. Thomson, 1884;
And three further cartes de visite and cabinet card albums (7)