Album des contes de fées

Album des contes de fées

Bound volume

Franck

Maker
French, 1816–1906

Franck

French, 1816–1906

Album des contes de fées

ca. 1870
Bound volume with albumen silver prints
Overall: 12 3/16 × 9 7/16 × 1 in. (31 × 24 × 2.5 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
1972.0298.0001-0020
DescriptionContains twenty albumen silver prints of illustrations by Nanteuil & Masson. Bound in blue leather with title in gilt title, gilt tooled decoration, and white moiré endpapers.



Inscriptions Stamped in gilt, front cover, recto, C: ALBUM \ DES \ CONTES DE FÉES \ Photographies de FRANCK
Inscribed in ink, label applied to spine, B: 05.1 \ 1870?
Oval blindstamp, front endpaper, verso, TL: 21 RUE CHAPON 21 \ Paris \ BEAUDOIRE-LEROUX et Cie. \ BRÉVETÉ S.G.D.G. \ FABRIQUE \ D'ALBUMS pour PHOTOGRAPHIES
Printed in brown ink, title page, recto, T: ALBUMS DES CONTES DE FÉES
Printed in brown ink, title page, recto, L: DESSINÉ PAR \ C. NANTEUIL \ & MASSON
Printed in brown ink, title page, recto, R: 20 SUJETS \ PHOTOGRAPHIÉS \ PAR FRANCK
Printed in brown ink, title page, recto, B: Photographie FRANCK rue Vivienne 18.
Inscribed in pencil (modern hand) on title page, C: [187-?]
Printed in blue ink, title page, recto, BR: Lith. Nachmann, r. Monmartre, 77
Stamped in black ink, title page, recto, BR: Eastman Historical \ Photographic Collection \ Cromer Collection \ B-135 [alpha-numerical inscribed in pencil]
Stamped in red ink, title page and back endpaper, BC: IMP/GEH

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