Francis Frith, 1822-1898

with thirty-seven plates, Albumen Prints, each except frontispiece approx. 230 by 160mm or the reverse, the majority signed, many numbered and some dated '1857' in the negative, printed titles, text by Francis Frith, William Mackenzie: London, Glasgow & Edinburgh, pub., quarter morocco over blue cloth, spine gilt in compartments and titled 'Lower Egypt and Thebes Photographed by Francis Frith', also titled in gilt on upper cover, with bookplate of 'Collingwood Lindsay Wood of Freeland', folio

Sotheby's Belgravia, 27th October 1978, lot 122.

See H. Gernsheim, Incunabula of British Photographic Literature 1839-1875, London and Berkeley: Scolar Press, no. 195, p. 38.