Text engl. - Photographically illustrated with 11 mounted original albumen prints approximately 4x3 inches (10.2x7.6 cm.), with printed captions on mount recto, attributed to George Washington Wilson, and engravings by Birket Foster and John Gilbert. With 20 p. of publisher’s advertising. - Other ed.: 1863; London 1865. - An early example for the use of albumen prints for book illustration. Photo motives are of Scottish landscape scenery. On the book market for more than six years this volume seems to have been a successful „longseller“.
cb, original full leather ornately decorated with stamped gilt rose and thistle frame, titles, shields and lances; with interior gilt-rolled pattern
ill. with 15 original, mounted albumen prints
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Text engl. - Title page printed in red and black with arched photograph of Scott's Monument at Edinburgh. With14 additional photographs by Thomas Annan (mounted on heavy paper with tissue guards) of the castles, abbeys, palaces, etc. that figured in Scott's epic poem of the climactic battle between King James IV of Scotland and English troops in 1513. This battle resulted in the King's death and heavy losses among the Scots. Thomas Annan (1829-1887) is noted primarily for his Scottish architectural studies and urban street scenes of Glasgow.
OLw., violett, Goldprägung auf dem Vorder- und Rückdeckel, Goldschnitt
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Text engl. - Enthält 14 eingeklebte Original Photographien, davon 12 von Thomas Ogle und 2 von George Washington Wilson. - Other ed.: 1863, Edinburgh 1869.
OLw., braun, Blindprägung auf dem Rückdeckel, Goldschnitt
Text engl. - RHK: Enthält 9 eingeklebte Original-Photographien von Russell Sedgfield und Stephen Thompson. Hinten Anzeigen: Photographic gift books, published by Provost & Co. ("Photography is admirably adapted for book-illustration, and to Messrs. Provost belongs the credit of carrying out the idea to great perfection" - public opinion), insges. 8 S. Verlagsanzeigen, die sich fast ausschließlich auf mit Original-Photographien illustrierte Bücher beziehen.