Hardcover
1861 · (New England
(New England, 1861. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Maroon decorated morocco over boards, stamped in gold and in blind, blue patterned endpapers, all edges gilt. Contains 55 salted paper and albumen oval and square vignette portraits, mostly of young men and women, including a few older persons and a few children. Many portraits are signed by the person photographed beneath the images ("Yours truly" etc.); a few appear to have been identified by the owner of the album; and several are unidentified. Further illustrated with three pencil drawings, two of which contain one portrait mounted within the drawings. The boards are darkened, wear at the joints and (truncated)