The Arctic Regions: Illustrated with Photographs Taken on an Art Expedition to Greenland

The Arctic Regions: Illustrated with Photographs Taken on an Art Expedition to Greenland

Bound volume

John L. Dunmore

Maker
American, 1833–1897

George P. Critcherson

Maker
American, 1823–1892

William Bradford

American, 1823–1892

The Arctic Regions: Illustrated with Photographs Taken on an Art Expedition to Greenland

1873
Bound volume with albumen silver prints
Overall: 25 1/16 × 20 3/8 × 2 5/16 in. (63.7 × 51.8 × 5.9 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
1979.0071.0001-0025
DescriptionAlbum containing twenty five whole page albumen silver prints, and one hundred and sixteen smaller albumen silver prints mounted throughout the text. Bound in brown leather decorated in gilt with marbled red, blue, and orange boards and endpapers.
Inscriptions Printed in gilt on spine, TC: THE / ARCTIC / REGIONS
Printed in gilt on spine, C: WILLIAM \ BRADFORD
Printed in gilt on spine, BC: 1873
Inscribed in ink on spine on applied white sticker, BC: 05.31
Printed in gilt on cover, C: THE \ ARCTIC\ REGIONS
Printed on title page on recto, C: THE \ ARCTIC REGIONS [in red ink] \ ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN \ ON AN ART EXPEDITION TO \ GREENLAND. \ BY \ WILLIAM BRADFORD [in red ink] \ WITH DESCRIPTIVE NARRATIVE \ BY THE ARTIST.
Printed in ink on title page on recto, BC: LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, LOW, AND SEARLE, \ CROWN BUILDINGS, FLEET STREET. \ 1873.
Inscribed in pencil on title page on verso, TL: J. L. Dunmore wrote of his experiences taking these \ photographs in the Philadelphia Photographer, \ V1 (1869), 412-14.
Printed on title page on verso, BC: CHISWICK PRESS: --PRINTED BY WHITTINGHAM AND WILKINS, \ TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE.
Inscribed in pencil on title page on verso, BLC: 05.31 \ 52
Inscribed in pencil on final page on recto (in Boyer's hand), TRC: Rorach [?] L.A. Calif 2/17/1948 Boyer \ $ II [circled] I E.RY [RY is underlined] \ Of greatest interest Photographicaly \ + rare beyond words \ Boyer

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