Lot Essay
The volume Egypt, Sinai and Palestine includes the frontispiece portrait of Francis Frith in Egyptian costume and the image titled 'Crocodile on a sand-bank'.
Details
FRANCIS FRITH (1822-1898)
Sinai and Palestine, Vol I; Lower Egypt and Thebes, Vol II; Upper Egypt and Ethiopia, Vol III and Egypt, Sinai and Palestine, Vol IV (Supplementary Volume), Glasgow and Edinburgh: William MacKenzie, [1863]
Four volume set bound as eight volumes comprising Sinai and Palestine part 1. pl. nos. 1-19, part 2. pl. nos. 20-37; Lower Egypt and Thebes part 1. pl. nos. 1-19, part 2. pl. nos. 20-37; Upper Egypt and Ethiopia part 1. pl. nos. 1-19, part 2 pl. nos. 20-37 and Egypt, Sinai and Palestine part 1. pl. nos. 1-16, part 2. pl. nos. 17-37, with a total of 148 albumen prints, approx. 6½ x 9 in., including frontispiece plates, several signed with occasional date 1857 in the negatives, printed titles on mounts, printed contents lists in part one of each volume, descriptive texts and title pages, uniformly bound in half red morocco (two with upper covers detached), decorative gilt motif and title Friths Photographs on upper covers, titled in gilt on spines, g.e., folio. (8)
Sinai and Palestine, Vol I; Lower Egypt and Thebes, Vol II; Upper Egypt and Ethiopia, Vol III and Egypt, Sinai and Palestine, Vol IV (Supplementary Volume), Glasgow and Edinburgh: William MacKenzie, [1863]
Four volume set bound as eight volumes comprising Sinai and Palestine part 1. pl. nos. 1-19, part 2. pl. nos. 20-37; Lower Egypt and Thebes part 1. pl. nos. 1-19, part 2. pl. nos. 20-37; Upper Egypt and Ethiopia part 1. pl. nos. 1-19, part 2 pl. nos. 20-37 and Egypt, Sinai and Palestine part 1. pl. nos. 1-16, part 2. pl. nos. 17-37, with a total of 148 albumen prints, approx. 6½ x 9 in., including frontispiece plates, several signed with occasional date 1857 in the negatives, printed titles on mounts, printed contents lists in part one of each volume, descriptive texts and title pages, uniformly bound in half red morocco (two with upper covers detached), decorative gilt motif and title Friths Photographs on upper covers, titled in gilt on spines, g.e., folio. (8)
Literature
Gernsheim, Incunabula of British Photographic Literature, 1839-1875, p. 38, no. 195