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THOMAS ANNAN
The Old Closes and Streets. A series of Photogravures 1868-1899. Glasgow: T. & R. Annan & Sons, 1900. 2° (384 x 280mm). 50 photogravures, with guards. (Occasional light soiling and spotting.) Original navy cloth, spine lettered in gilt, arms in gilt on front cover (corners lightly rubbed, faint dampstain, joints and hinges just starting).
ONE OF 100 COPIES OF ANNAN'S MASTERPIECE, printed for the Corporation of Glasgow, in which he records the city's slum clearance ahead of redevelopment. The compelling pictures in this important antecedent of 20th-century social documentary are 'AMONGST THE MOST INTIMATE AND "MODERN" IN FEELING OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY DOCUMENTS' ( The Photobook). The Photobook, p.49; The Truthful Lens, 185.
The Old Closes and Streets. A series of Photogravures 1868-1899. Glasgow: T. & R. Annan & Sons, 1900. 2° (384 x 280mm). 50 photogravures, with guards. (Occasional light soiling and spotting.) Original navy cloth, spine lettered in gilt, arms in gilt on front cover (corners lightly rubbed, faint dampstain, joints and hinges just starting).
ONE OF 100 COPIES OF ANNAN'S MASTERPIECE, printed for the Corporation of Glasgow, in which he records the city's slum clearance ahead of redevelopment. The compelling pictures in this important antecedent of 20th-century social documentary are 'AMONGST THE MOST INTIMATE AND "MODERN" IN FEELING OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY DOCUMENTS' ( The Photobook). The Photobook, p.49; The Truthful Lens, 185.
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