NADAR, DISDERI, PETIT, CARJAT, BISSON FRERES, MAYALL, ELLIOTT & FRY and others

Portraits of writers, 1860s

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NADAR, DISDERI, PETIT, CARJAT, BISSON FRERES, MAYALL, ELLIOTT & FRY and others
Portraits of writers, 1860s
Album containing 193 cartes-de-visite, a few autographed and the majority inscribed in ink/pencil and with photographers' printed credits on mounts or on verso, loosely mounted in pre-cut window mounts with gilt borders, identified and several with sitters' birth and death dates in pencil in a later hand on mounts, marquetry boards in panels constructed on the cube form (new morocco spine and slight damage to edge of upper cover), gilt inner dentelles, g.e., lge. 4to.; with two cabinet cards and seventeen cartes-de-visite loosely inserted. (20)

Lot Essay

Including portraits of Georges Sand, Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Hans Christian Andersen, Mark Twain, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sir Henry Rider Haggard, William Morris, John Ruskin, William Makepeace Thackery and William Wilkie Collins.

See colour illustration p. 16b

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