W & D Downey: The Cabinet Portrait Gallery, reproduced from original photographs by W & D Downey, third series. , London: Cassell & Company, 1892.

First edition (hardback), third series only. 8vo, iv, 96pp. 36 plates from photographs. Original decorated brown cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine. This copy was formerly in a refeence library, with several stamps, and there is considerable foxing of the contents (affecting the text pages and the versos of the pages on which the plates are mounted. The plates are in very good condition, and the binding is bright, so this is a good copy overall. This volume includes portrait plates of: Her Majesty the Queen, H A Jones, Prof Henry Morley, The Duke of Edinburgh, Miss Olga Brandon, J M Barrie, Viscount Wolseley, Miss Liza Lehmann, Sir Sydney Waterlow, Rev Dr Adler, Duchess of Edinburgh, Dr Robson Roose, Princess Victoria Mary of teck, Lord Kelvin (Sir William Thomson), Miss Julia Neilson, Right Hon A W Peel, Lady Carew, Professor Blackie, Hall Caine, Miss Kate Rorke, Sir John Gorst, Beerbohm Tree, Lady Jeune, Mr Schnadhorst, J R Diggle, Miss Adelaide Detchon, Solomon J Solomon, Leonard Courtney, Ex-Empress Eugenie, Mr Forbes-Robertson, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, Mrs Alexander, J L Toole, Duke of Cambridge, Miss Dod, Sir Lyon Playfair. (Book ref. 24753)  £60.00

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