Victorian Photograph Albums

An unusual blue leather wallet-style album. Includes portraits by Bolko Schmiechen of Sunderland. Mendelssohn Hargreaves of London and a Mrs. Read of Guildford (amongst many others of course).

A well-padded brown leather arched album with decorative pages. Soldiers from Peshawar Chirat, the Punjab and Meerut in India, Bonn and Berlin in Germany, Lyon, Marseille and Paris in France plus one lonely Brit in Bow.

An arched brown leather album with a cross-hatch designed cover and decorative pages within. Contains two Colonels from Elandsfontein, a French lute player in a Bedouin tent, and cycling groups from New Quay and Burnham.

An album celebrating the coronation of Edward VII in 1902 and inscribed to a female music teacher in Aberdeen. I’ve left in some rare cabinet and cdv Christmas and New Year cards designed by William Luks of London. And in honour of the afore-mentioned music teacher, turn to the last […]

An art nouveau black leather album with unusual patterned endpapers and decorative lithographic pages. Contains a number of portraits from Saint Petersburg (or rather Saint Petersbourg as it was spelt in the late nineteenth century).

A brown leather ‘Highland’ album decorated beautifully with thistles across front, back and spine. Inside, on lithographic pages featuring Scottish wildlife, find portraits of some Swiss musicians, various Australians and an alarming Masonic ‘blackface’ character.