Victorian Photograph Albums

A brown leather album with with gilt botanical decorative pages. The number of Americans within proves it is from the early stages of our collection – back in the days when postage from the States was still affordable and one didn’t yet have to pay ridiculous customs charges on old […]

A miniature carte de visite ‘Friendship’ album with an enamelled and over-printed cover. 

An album from 1870 with carved wooden front dedicated ‘to the language of the Welsh world’ and an extraordinary lattice-work carved back. Forty packed pages of portraits plus an albumen print (pasted into the album) depicting a languorous maiden lounging on a tiger skin… 

A blue leather album with red, silver and gold decorative bands. Featuring a prospector from the South African Goldfields and an early portrait from Rio de Janeiro taken by Guimaraes in 1877.

A magnificent metal-edged leather photo album  to take you to far-flung places – including Mauritius, Tasmania, and Quebec – and to mourn the loss of a dog somewhere in England (not for the faint of heart…).

A rather battered music box album with floral lithographic pages. The music box mechanism, as you can hear, needs some attention. Includes cabinet photographs of a clarinettist from Stratford and a splendid portrait by Bourne & Shepherd in Simla.