Views in Japan, India, & China

A$10,000 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

[1867-1870]. Photograph album, large oblong folio (320 x 480 mm), original red morocco richly gilt (worn at corners and spine ends), upper board lettered in gilt Views in Japan, India, China ; all edges gilt; moire pastedowns and endpapers; verso of front free-endpaper with the inscription of the original owner Frederick Woods, dated July 1871; containing [29] albumen prints by Felix Beato, in format 290 x 230 mm (or reverse), mounted recto of card leaves, the first 24 with Beato s detailed printed caption mounted facing, the remainder with a brief manuscript caption on the mount; the first five Beato images are all exquisitely hand-coloured Japanese ethnic types in tableaux, the others are all topographical views in Japan; next is a sequence of [4] albumen prints by Samuel Bourne with topographical views in India, in approx. 230 x 290 mm format and all mounted recto with Woods manuscript caption to the mount; these are followed by [6] large albumen prints with views in Hong Kong by William Pryor Floyd in approx. 190 x 270 mm format, again all mounted recto and with a manuscript caption to the mount; the final album leaf has an albumen print of the newly-renovated Shepheard s Hotel, Cairo, the south wing of which had recently been destroyed by fire; a few of the Beato views have fading at the edges, otherwise all of the prints in the album are in excellent condition and have good tonal range; the mounts are clean and free from foxing. An interesting album compiled at the star

• Binding: Hardcover

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