1959 Photograph Album of a Man's Trip to England and Scotland
n.p. n.p., 1959. Photo Album. Oblong 8vo. 28 cm x 38 cm. The album cover is red faux leather with gold lettering and two gold flourishes on the front cover, bound with a red tie. Photographs and postcards are mounted with four corner tabs each on black paper. Photographs measure 9 cm x 9 cm to 9 cm x 14.5 cm. There are 23 leaves (46 pages) of content. Most of the photographs are in black and white but a handful are in color. With a few postcards pasted in, all in color, some measure 9 cm x 14 cm and some measure 15 cm x 10.5 cm. Almost every photograph and postcard is accompanied by a typewritten caption of what is depicted, captions printed on white paper. The photographs depict landmarks like Stonehenge, Tintagel, Glastonbury (the abbey), the Roman Baths, Canterbury Cathedral, Winchester Cathedral, Jane Austen's home, Salisbury Cathedral, York Minster, the Isle of Skye, Inverness, Grasmere Lake, Thomas Hardy's birthplace in Dorset, landmarks from his novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Westminster Abbey, Samuel Johnson's home in London, an orator speaking in Hyde Park, Dickens' residence, the Tower of London, Kensington Gardens, and the exterior of the British Museum. The album was put together by an English literature professor who took the trip and let his love of the subject inform his itinerary. The postcards at the end of the album depict the Brontë sisters, Byron, Wordsworth, Dickens, and others. Most of the photographs are of just the landmarks, but there are a few photographs of people scattered throughout: the crowd listening to the speaker at Hyde Park, a women playing with a shetland pony on the side of the highway, a man standing in the circle at Stonehenge (possibly the compiler of this album), and women shopping at the Shambles in York. A visual smorgasbord of English and Scottish highlights. Near Fine. Item #000014636
Very light wear to the leaves' bottom edges, overall a sharp example.
Price: $275.00