Sold for:
$1,240
$1,240
An album of over fifty leaves of tipped-in letters, cut signatures, and carte-de-visite albumen prints of British Royalty and notable persona, mainly authors and scientists, from the mid-nineteenth century. Contributors include Queen Victoria, Alfred Lord Tennyson, George IV, the Duke of Wellington, George Staunton, Baroness Orczy, Sir Walter Scott, Michael Faraday, William Gladstone, William Wilberforce, Alexis de Tocqueville, Cardinal John H. Newman, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and many others, the majority tipped onto album leaves. Folio, half morocco.
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2011-08-09
