Victorian Photograph Album

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A beautiful Victorian photograph album in a Parkins & Gotto quarter-morocco binding with inlaid mother-of-pearl boards and a brass clasp, housing thirty-two original portraits and photographs from notable British studios. In a delightful quarter morocco binding with inlaid with geometric panels of mother-of-pearl to the boards, moiré silk endpapers, and a brass clasp fitting, by Parkins & Gotto. The front board is sadly almost entirely fully disbound, and in need of sympathetic repair.Dated from contemporary ink inscription to front free endpaper, signed Miss S. M. Moyers, Christmas, 1872.With twenty-five card frames, in which two photographs can be inserted. With a total of thirty-two photographs, including one hand-coloured portrait and albumen portraits. Collated, complete.These original photographs show individual portraits of men, women, and children, as well as a family portraits, from studios including: Henry A. Chapman's Studios, one of the first commercial photographers in Swansea, Browning Small of 22 Baker Street, Harrison Goldie of Swansea, and Jno. Hawke of Plymouth, among others. In a quarter morocco binding with boards inlaid with geometric panels of mother-of-pearl, moiré silk endpapers, and a brass clasp fitting, by Parkins & Gotto.Externally, front board almost entirely fully disbound, and in need of sympathetic repair, only just holding to the lower extremities of the front joint. Clasp functioning. Slight cracking to lower extremities of rear joint. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Contemporary ink inscription to front free endpaper. The odd spot to silk endpapers. Front hinge slightly cracked but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Resistant to lying flat from thickness of card frames. Frames bright and clean with one or two spots to fore edge. Good Only. N° de ref. del artículo 998H21

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