Carte-de-visite Album.

Description:

Carte-de-visite Album.
Folio landscape-format commercially produced album consisting of thirteen album leaves, containing fifty-two 4 x 6 in. portrait cards including those of: William Gladstone; a young Neville Chamberlain, with monocle; Victor Hugo; Leo Tolstoy; Robert Browning; Tennyson; Ibsen; Alexander Dumas; Thomas Hardy; Ruskin; Swinburne; Kipling; Charles Darwin; Louis Pasteur; John Tyndall; Gustave Eiffel; and many others, including a small group of Italian composers and musicians, other British politicians, and writers, professors, et cetera; the condition of the cards varies, but is generally good, the album is worn and failing, 12 x 9 in. overall.
Estimate $3,500-4,500


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