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LAFAYETTE, HEATH, RUSSELL & SONS, SOUTHWELL BROS., DOWNEY, BINGHAM, GHEMAR FRERES, HANSEN, LANGE and others
Alexandra, Princess of Wales
'Wild Flower Album' containing ninety-four cartes-de-visite and sixteen cabinet portraits, fifteen hand-tinted, various photographers' credits on mounts, inserted in pre-cut window mounts, oval or with arched tops, gilt borders, chromolithographed floral designs on several mounts, chromolithographed frontispiece listing flowers depicted with maker's stamp C.R. & Co. and album title page, inscribed in ink and dated 1889 on front free end, brown leather with applied silk flowers in relief, silver edges and clasp, 4to.; an album of twenty cartes-de-visite and thirteen cabinet cards, sitters identified in pencil in a later hand on mounts, occasional chromolithographed mounts with foliage and birds, brown morocco, spine and covers heavily embossed in gilt, front cover with central painted panel showing a lady with a sprig of flowers looking from a balcony, gilt metal clasp (lower joints split), g.e., lge. 4to.; with five loose cabinet portraits and forty-five cartes-de-visite and a larger portrait. (a lot)
