INDIA – [Photograph Album.] Views. Indian Tour, 1881 [thus titled on cover].

INDIA – [Photograph Album.] Views. Indian Tour, 1881 [thus titled on cover].

Extensive collection of fine 19th-century photographs of India, including views of Delhi, Bombay, Darjeeling, the Himalayas and Ceylon. Also included are 2 photographs of the Egyptian pyramids.

100 original photographs of which 76 are large format (approx. 240 x 290mm), 22 medium format (155 x 205mm) and 2 small format (130 x 100mm), mounted on 44 leaves, oblong quarto (319 x 405mm), manuscript captions, (some light spotting, mainly confined to margins of leaves, a few photographs with slight fading at edges). Contemporary red morocco, panelled in gilt (extremities rubbed). Provenance: Frederick du Cane Godman (bookplate).