J.J.E. Mayall, C. Silvy, Herbert Watkins, Matthew Brady, E. Desmaisons, Disdéri, Maull & Polyblank, Kilburn, Southwall Bros. and others

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J.J.E. Mayall, C. Silvy, Herbert Watkins, Matthew Brady, E. Desmaisons, Disdéri, Maull & Polyblank, Kilburn, Southwall Bros. and others
Portraits of royalty, aristocracy and celebrities, 1850s-60s
Album containing 174 cartes-de-visite, the majority identified in pencil and with photographer's printed credit label on mount, loosely inserted four-per-page in pre-cut window mounts, numbered in sequence 1-192 in ink on mounts, black embossed morocco (lacking spine, front cover detached), gilt-metal clasps (broken), g.e., 4to.; with typescript list of sitters loosely inserted. (2)

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Portraits include the British royal family, Napoleon III, Emperor and Empress of Russia, bishops, William Thackeray, Charles Dickens, Disraeli, Garibaldi, Tennyson, Abraham Lincoln, Sir Joseph Paxton, Sir Charles Eastlake, Sir David Brewster, Sir John Herschel, Florence Nightingale, Landseer, Millais and several familiy portraits.

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