DOWNEY, W. & D.: THE CABINET PORTRAIT GALLERY. , London. Cassell and Company, Limited, nd(1893).Reproduced from Original Photographs by W & D Downey. Orig.pict.blue cloth. Spine title impressed in gilt. Upper corners bruised. Minor stringmark. Contents VG and clean, but there is an occasional obtrusive number of brown spots here and there mostly affecting the endpapers and the frontispiece tissue-guard. There is some occasional minor cracking. 96pp. 36 full-page plates in sepia mounted on card. The subjects, all with accompanying biographical details, includes Princess Henry of Battenberg, Henry Irving, Frank Dicksee, Jerome K. Jerome (as illustrated), Justin McCarthy, Joseph Barnby, S. Baring-Gould, George Alexander, Hubert Parry, Marion Terry, George Bernard Shaw, Elizabeth Robins, Mr. Kendal, Sidney Webb, W.T. Stead and Lady Randolph Churchill. It needs careful handling. VG+. (Book ref. 10465) £175.00 The payment methods accepted by the seller, David Paramor , are shown in the right-hand column. |
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