AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION

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AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION

Rural scenes, portrait studies, still lives and topography, 1860s

Album comprising approx. 175 albumen prints, c-de-v-size to 11 x 9¼ in., several trimmed with arched tops or oval, majority with titles, photographers' credits and double reference number relating to A.P.A. identification system in pencil on mounts, detached half-torn front free page with pencil inscription Photographs, chiefly by members of the Amateur Photo. Soc. Eliot Howard, half morocco (disbound, lacking spine), ruled in gilt, large 4to.

Lot Essay

Photographers are listed as follows: H. Cooper Jr., Lieutenant Colonel Playfair, C.A.D. Halford, F. R. Barclay, Lieutenant H. W. Senior, Captain J. Bankart, J. W. Remington, J. Bevington, Hon. A. Jocelyne, Hon. R. Abercrombie, Dr. Hemphill M.D., Major F. Gresley, M. Church Junior, H. R. Cherrill, Baynham Jones, Capt. P. A. Elphinstone, J. Price, M. S. Hobson, F. E. Curry, A. Booty, Captain Clarence Taylor, M. Allport, I. J. R. Moss and Rev. S. Harvey.

Including foliage studies, the Umbeyla Campaign of 1863, boats, English country scenes, a portrait of a lady reading and another of a lady by a window, still life studies of fruit, a study of a traction engine and a man "shooting a sleeping python".

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