Photographs of Edinburgh with descriptive letterpress

Photographs of Edinburgh with descriptive letterpress

Bound volume

Robert Michael Ballantyne

Maker
British, 1825–1894

Photographs of Edinburgh with descriptive letterpress

1868
Bound volume with albumen silver prints
Overall (closed): 11 × 8 3/4 × 13/16 in. (27.9 × 22.3 × 2 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
1950.0006.0006
DescriptionPhotographically illustrated book containing 13 albumen silver prints. Published by Andrew Duthie in Glasgow, Simpkin, Marshall & Co. in London, and W.H. Smith & Sons in Dublin. Printed by Dublin Steam Printing Company. Cover is green with gold debossed lettering and decorative elements.
Inscriptions Inscribed in white on spine, B: 1867
Debossed in gold on cover, C: PHOTOGRAPHS \ OF \ SCOTTISH SCENERY \ EDINBURGH
Inscribed in white on cover, TRC: 1896[?]
Inscribed in pencil (in Boyer's hand) on recto of front free endpaper, TR: Found in \ S. America \ Boyer
Inscribed in pencil (in Boyer's hand) on recto of back free endpaper, TR: E. Eli \ Buenos Aires \ 7/1949 - \ I [circled] I Σ R s \ Boyer

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