£160
A mid-Victorian photograph album, c. 1855-60, illustrated with 63 prints after original photographs of leading contemporary 'celebrities' and leading pillars of the Establishment, nos. 61-62 accompanied by a loosely-inserted contemporary manuscript key, recording such sitters as a Charles Dickens, David Livingstone, youthful Gladstone, Lord Palmerston and further politicians, Lord Macaulay, Joseph Sturge the Quaker abolitionist, the operatic soprano Anna Bishop, the scientist and polymath Alexander von Humboldt, various members of the Church and some leading evangelicals, including John Bird Sumner and his brother Charles Sumner as Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of Winchester respectively, Samuel Wilberforce as Bishop of Oxford, Archibald Campbell Tait as Bishop of London, Baptist Noel, etc., each portrait cut into an oval and pasted onto card, split and the leaves with some movement, contemporary gilt brass mounted black morocco over boards, rubbed and joints starting to split, all edges gilt, moiré endpapers, oblong 8vo
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