[Rarebooks] FS: Scotland, 14 orig. photos, fine binding, 1868

[Greg Powers]

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Scotland: Her Songs and Scenery.  As sung by her Bards, and Seen in the Camera.  London: A. W. Bennett, 1868.  First edition.  Illustrated with 14 original mounted albumen photos by Stephen Thompson and 4 by P. Ewing.  8vo, bound in publisher’s full dark green morocco, with elaborate gilt- and blind-tooled borders and decorations on the covers and spine, a.e.g.  [ix], 192 pp.  Some modest rubbing to the edges of the binding; several of the photo mounts are chipped at the leading edge (the paper is heavily sized and quite fragile), and one photo is missing its tissue guard; otherwise a very good copy.  The photos are still rich in tone; the binding design, which is signed “JL,” features heraldic devices within a thistle-and-rose border.  This leather binding—a fine example of a Victorian publishers’ binding--seems to be much less common than the cloth version (which featured the same design).

$250 plus shipping

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