£80 - £120
Americana. Photography: The World of Phineas T. Barnum, signed by Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt as a trustee of The Frederick Hill Meserve Collection, copy no. 332/5,000, Time Life Books, 1977, loosely-inserted 8pp and 8 photographs printed from original glass negatives of Tom and Lavinia Thumb, Jane Campbell, The Fat Lady, further 'midgets' and 'circus freaks' each image 10.4 x 6.8cm, their margins numbered and blind-stamped, mounted onto card leaves with the further Matthew Brady Meserve Collection Gallery blind-stamp, original pinstriped silk-covered case, somewhat soiled, its pastedown with a further larger photograph, folio (36.5 x 29cm)
Provenance: Peter Messent, Emeritus Professor of Modern American Literature and former Head of the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham.
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