Photographs of the Giant's Causeway: with Descriptive Letterpress
Bound volume
Photographs of the Giant's Causeway: with Descriptive Letterpress
ca. 1865
Bound volume with albumen silver prints
Overall (closed): 8 × 6 3/8 × 7/8 in. (20.3 × 16.2 × 2.3 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
1950.0006.0021
DescriptionPhotographically illustrated book with 94 pages, illustrated with 12 photographs of various locations along the Antrim Coast (from Belfast to Portrush) in Northern Ireland. Green cloth cover with gold debossing. Brown endpapers.
Inscriptions Debossed in gold on front cover: PHOTOGRPAHS of the GIANT'S CAUSEWAY
Inscribed in pencil by Alden Scott Boyer on page 3 [recto of front free endpaper]: Photography ABOUT 1865 \ Plenty Rare ] Mares Photog. \ Photos Faded except \ in center as \ usual of Period \ Why I don't Know? \ B
[Pages 2 and 4 have other small pencil inscriptions that have not been recorded]
[Pages 5 and 7 are printed title pages with title, a poem, and publishing information]
[Page 9 contains a printed list of illustrations by F. H. Mares]
[Pages 87 and 89 contain information about other books published by Andrew Duthie; Boyer has made notations in red pencil on these pages]
Inscribed in pencil by Alden Scott Boyer on page 93 [back endpaper]: D. W. London \ 1/1948 - 1 [circled] EVY [?] \ Boyer
Printed on applied label on inner, back cover: BOUND \ by \ J. B. BUNYARD. 104 \ HIGH HOLBORN. \ W. C.
Inscribed in pencil by Alden Scott Boyer on page 3 [recto of front free endpaper]: Photography ABOUT 1865 \ Plenty Rare ] Mares Photog. \ Photos Faded except \ in center as \ usual of Period \ Why I don't Know? \ B
[Pages 2 and 4 have other small pencil inscriptions that have not been recorded]
[Pages 5 and 7 are printed title pages with title, a poem, and publishing information]
[Page 9 contains a printed list of illustrations by F. H. Mares]
[Pages 87 and 89 contain information about other books published by Andrew Duthie; Boyer has made notations in red pencil on these pages]
Inscribed in pencil by Alden Scott Boyer on page 93 [back endpaper]: D. W. London \ 1/1948 - 1 [circled] EVY [?] \ Boyer
Printed on applied label on inner, back cover: BOUND \ by \ J. B. BUNYARD. 104 \ HIGH HOLBORN. \ W. C.
