VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS including WILLIAM NOTMAN, ANTOINE CLAUDET, J.J.E. MAYALL, GHEMAR FRERES and ELLIOTT & FRY

British aristocracy and philanthropists, 1860s-70s

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VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS including WILLIAM NOTMAN, ANTOINE CLAUDET, J.J.E. MAYALL, GHEMAR FRERES and ELLIOTT & FRY
British aristocracy and philanthropists, 1860s-70s
Six albums containing a total of approx. 330 cartes-de-visite, a few autographed in ink on recto, the majority with photographers' printed credits on mounts, loosely inserted in pre-cut window mounts, several autographed or identified in ink on paper labels or in pencil in a later hand on mounts, three inscribed and/or dated in ink on front blank or front free end, various bindings including stamped morocco and one black morocco with applied ivory filigree decoration at corners on front and back covers, gilt clasps, g.e., 8vo. and oblong 8vo.; with a quantity of cartes and cabinet cards loosely inserted.(a lot)

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This lot is illustrated at the top of page 34 (incorrectly number 84).

Lot Essay

Sitters include Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, the Crown Princess of Prussia, Princess Helena, Prince Alfred, Princess Beatrice, Prince Leopold, the Duke of Edinburgh, Princess Alexandra, Sir William and Lady Heathcote, Lord and Lady Willoughby de Broke, the Hon. Frederick Walpole and his wife, the Duchess of Beaufort, Lady Elizabeth Bryan, Earl Aberdeen, the Duchess of Wellington, the Duke and Duchess of Buckinghamshire, the Marchioness of Londonderry, Lt. Col. Cholmondeley, Lord Denbigh, Lady Edward Cavendish, the Duke and Duchess of Manchester, the Baroness Burdett-Coutts, the Earl of Shaftsbury and Mr. George Peabody among others.

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