Japan | two albums of photographs, 1880s

JAPAN

Two albums of photographs, 1880s

Oblong folio (300 x 350mm.), 22 hand-tinted albumen prints (195 x 255mm., or the reverse), including portraits and views, each mounted on card, recto only, contemporary black cloth, upper cover stamped in gilt 'Japan 1885-88', some minor wear to prints, backstrip detached, slight wear and small loss to binding

Oblong folio (275 x 350mm.), 30 hand-tinted albumen prints (210 x 270mm., or the reverse), corner mounted, recto and verso, contemporary bamboo? fabric boards, some stains to mounts, slight wear to binding