Set in window mats in an album, many of the leaves with color lithograph decorative borders, with the subjects names neatly inked in red & black on the mats, a few with additional painted decorations. Album is 28.5x22 cm. (11¼x8¾"), thick calf covers.
Exceptional gathering of cdv's and cabinet cards of British luminaries, including Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, Duke of Buckingham, Charles Darwin (2), Charles Dickens (a half dozen), William Thackeray (2), Lord Lytton (2), the Lord Mayor of London, Robert Browning, Palmerston, Gladstone, Kingsley, Brougham, Huxley, Spencer, Landseer, Tennyson, Trollope, Leech, Ruskin, Tyndall, Mill, Carlyle, and others.
Condition:
Covers worn, detached, spine perished; internally quite nice, the photographs near fine to fine, worthy of restoration to the binding.