TRAVELS OF A VICTORIAN PHOTOGRAPHER; The Photographs of Francis Firth / With texts by various writers, selected by Roger Hudson
London: The Folio Society, 2003. B/W period photos by Francis Firth & map. Third Printing of 2001 edition. Pictorial cloth. Quarto (10 5/8 x 7 3/4" x 1 1/8" with slipcase); dark green cloth with gilt lettering on spine + collage of 4 B&W [sepia-toned] Victorian photographs on front cover; illulstrated with ~ 145 glossy reproductions of sepia-toned photographs taken by Francis Firth derived from glass plates (28 counties or locations x ~ 5 plates/locale); B&W/sepia photographic endpapers; xi, [xii] + 320 pages. Carboard green slipcase. Weight: 2 lbs. 11 oz. Very Fine. Item #10113
Photographis with lively commentaries by many writers (such as Beatrix Potter, Henry James, Stopford Brook, Edward Fitzgerald, William Allingham, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thomas Hardy, and many others) on London & England's counties: Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire, Hampshire--the Isle of Wight--Sussex, Surrey, Kent...Lancashire, Yorkshire, The Lake District, AND brief views of Scotland.
Firth's fabulous and famed popular series--also carried on by his business--eventually created some 300,000 images!
SUPERB like NEW OVERALL CONDITION: Very tight, bright, clean cloth, paper, and color plates. No previous owner markings. Solid and clean slipcase with a minute bruse to an upper corner.
Price: $45.00