The Holy Land, Egypt, Constantinople, Athens: a series of forty-eight photographs taken by Francis Bedford with descriptive text and introd. by W. M. Thompson
Bound volume
The Holy Land, Egypt, Constantinople, Athens: a series of forty-eight photographs taken by Francis Bedford with descriptive text and introd. by W. M. Thompson
ca. 1865
Bound volume with albumen silver prints and letterpress
Overall (closed): 9 7/8 × 8 1/16 × 7/8 in. (25.1 × 20.4 × 2.3 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
DescriptionBook with partially unbound pages. Pages with plates have been removed from the book causing much of the text block to be loose in the binding. Plates 13 and 40 are missing. Book documents the travels of His Royal Highness Prince Albert, consort of Victoria, Queen of Britain beginning in 1862. Images show views of Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Constantinople, and Athens. Each plate is numbered and titled on the page. Text also numbered to accompany each plate. Cover is blue sand-grain cloth over bevelled boards with gilt lettering and stamping. Cover has ornamental border enclosing a large gilt stamp of the arms of Jerusalem. The decorative boarder appears blind stamped on the back cover.
Inscriptions Debossed on cover recto, C: Deus vult
Debossed in gilt on spine, C: THE \ HOLY LAND \ EGYPT \ &c. \ PHOTOGRAPHS \ TAKEN FOR \ H.R.H. THE PRINCE \ OF \ WALES \ BY \ F. BEDFORD. \ DESCRIPTIVE TEXT \ BY W. M. THOMPSON \ [illegible] \ DAY & SON \ LIMITED
Printed on applied bookplate on inside cover, C: CERTO DIRIGO ICTU \ Charles Thurburn.
Inscribed in Boyer's hand in pencil on first flyleaf recto, TC: From London \ From Pencil Mark May \ Apparently Holland House Copy - B 8/48 \ London but lacks \ their Bookplate - \ May have been a \ gift \ no dampness \ apparent - \ This House was \ Blitzed during \ War #2 + \ the Library sold at \ Auction in London \ B
Inscribed in Boyer's hand in pencil on first flyleaf recto, RT: Interesting to \ compare with \ Maxime DuCamp of \ 1852 -
Inscribed in Boyer's hand in pencil on title page recto, BR: Date after Piazzi Smyths Great Pyramids \ see page 16 - Boyer 8/48
Inscribed in pencil on back endpaper, TRC: 19/ \ Fletcher London \ 8/1948 \ $10.25 - het - \ Boyer
Debossed in gilt on spine, C: THE \ HOLY LAND \ EGYPT \ &c. \ PHOTOGRAPHS \ TAKEN FOR \ H.R.H. THE PRINCE \ OF \ WALES \ BY \ F. BEDFORD. \ DESCRIPTIVE TEXT \ BY W. M. THOMPSON \ [illegible] \ DAY & SON \ LIMITED
Printed on applied bookplate on inside cover, C: CERTO DIRIGO ICTU \ Charles Thurburn.
Inscribed in Boyer's hand in pencil on first flyleaf recto, TC: From London \ From Pencil Mark May \ Apparently Holland House Copy - B 8/48 \ London but lacks \ their Bookplate - \ May have been a \ gift \ no dampness \ apparent - \ This House was \ Blitzed during \ War #2 + \ the Library sold at \ Auction in London \ B
Inscribed in Boyer's hand in pencil on first flyleaf recto, RT: Interesting to \ compare with \ Maxime DuCamp of \ 1852 -
Inscribed in Boyer's hand in pencil on title page recto, BR: Date after Piazzi Smyths Great Pyramids \ see page 16 - Boyer 8/48
Inscribed in pencil on back endpaper, TRC: 19/ \ Fletcher London \ 8/1948 \ $10.25 - het - \ Boyer
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