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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). Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of PHOTOGRAPHIC GROUPS OF EMINENT PERSONAGES [title taken from the cover. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including atlases, collectables, rare books, incunabula and libri rari. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |