PHOTOGRAPHIC GROUPS OF EMINENT PERSONAGES [title taken from the cover

N.p. , N.d. [1890’s]. Folio (13 x 10 5/8 inches), publisher's red grained cloth, worn, faded and stained, with the title and some design in gilt on the upper cover, repeated in blind on the lower cover. The anonymous publishers (who never bothered putting their name on the cover, much less print a title-page) offer up SEVEN LARGE COMPOSITE PHOTOGRAPHS of famous people along with seven companion "outline" plates that "key" the images to numbered captions below; viz.: I. Celebrities in the Church, Science, Literature, and Art; II. Modern Celebrities. Political, Legal, &c.; III. Military and Naval Celebrities; IV. & V. Musical, Operatic, and Dramatic Celebrities; VI. Historical Celebrities [in which they use a composite photograph of painted portraits]; and VII. Eminent Women. Literary and Historical [a combination of painted and photographic images]. The list of celebrities runs to about 700, and includes such figures as: Cardinal Newman, Sir H. M. Stanley, Kipling, Savonarola, Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Miss Jenny Lee, Herr Joachim (Violinist), Alfred the Great, et. al. An unusual photographic album (and perhaps a forerunner of People magazine). 7 LARGE COMPOSITE PHOTOGRAPHS FAMOUS PEOPLE