Victorian Photographs of Famous Men & Fair Women

Boston: David R. Godine, 1973. Expanded and rev. ed. Hardbound. Good/Good (foxing to upper block, corners bumped. Text and illustrations are clean and clear. Dust jacket has light shelfwear with small tears and clipped front flap.). Purple cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; tan dust jacket with bw photographs on front and rear, black spine lettering; 32 pp, 44 leaves of plates. "Julia Margaret Cameron has long been recognised as a photographer of extraordinary power and sublety, but it is perhaps only now that we can fully appreciate her success in raising photography to an art form."- dust jacket. (Inventory #: 126415)