Le Tour du Bois: première série, Photographie Hippique
Bound volume
Le Tour du Bois: première série, Photographie Hippique
1882
Bound volume with albumen silver prints
Image (each): 4 1/16 × 2 15/16 in. (10.3 × 7.5 cm)
Mount (each page): 10 1/16 × 6 9/16 in. (25.5 × 16.7 cm)
Overall: 6 7/8 × 11 7/16 × 1 3/16 in. (17.5 × 29 × 3 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
DescriptionContains twenty-four albumen silver prints depicting equestrians astrided their horses in the Bois de Boulogne. Bound in dark green leather, with decorative borders stamped in gilt, gilt edges, and marbled endpapers.
Inscriptions Stamped in gilt, on front cover, C: LE TOUR DU BOIS
Stamped signature in gilt, on front cover, BR: Delton
Stamped in gilt, on spine, C: LE \ TOUR DU BOIS \ 1. SÉRIE \ 1882
Inscribed in black ink, on white label applied to spine, B: 05.1 \ 1882
Signed in black ink, on title page recto, TR: M. Lloyd
Inscribed in pencil (Cromer's hand) on title page recto, BR: tirage sur albumine
Stamped in black ink, on title page recto, BR: Eastman Historical \ Photographic Collection
Stamped in red ink, on title page recto, and on introduction page recto, B: IMP/GEH
Printed in black ink on scalloped-oval label applied to introduction page recto, TL: COLLECTION \ G.CROMER
Stamped signature in gilt, on front cover, BR: Delton
Stamped in gilt, on spine, C: LE \ TOUR DU BOIS \ 1. SÉRIE \ 1882
Inscribed in black ink, on white label applied to spine, B: 05.1 \ 1882
Signed in black ink, on title page recto, TR: M. Lloyd
Inscribed in pencil (Cromer's hand) on title page recto, BR: tirage sur albumine
Stamped in black ink, on title page recto, BR: Eastman Historical \ Photographic Collection
Stamped in red ink, on title page recto, and on introduction page recto, B: IMP/GEH
Printed in black ink on scalloped-oval label applied to introduction page recto, TL: COLLECTION \ G.CROMER
