W & D Downey: The Cabinet Portrait Gallery, reproduced from original photographs by W & D Downey, fourth series. , London: Cassell & Company, 1893.

First edition (hardback), fourth 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: Princess Henry of Battenburg, Henry Irving, John Burns, Frank Dicksee, Miss Marion Lea, Jerome K Jerome, Right Hon James Bryce, The Misses Dene, Prof Max Muller, Justin McCarthy, The Maharani of Kuch behar, Sir Joseph Barnby, Prof W E Ayrton, Mlle Zelie de Lussan, Rev S Baring-Gould, Bishop of Peterborough, The Duchess of Connaught and family, George Alexander, Hubert Parry, Miss Marion Terry, George Bernard Shaw, The King of Greece, Miss Elizabeth Robins, G J Holyoake, Mr Kendal, Lady Alexandra Duff, Admiral Keppel, Sir Edwin Arnold, Lady Colin Campbell, Sidney Webb, W T Stead, Lady Randolph Churchill, W M Conway, Sir George Trevelyan, Duke and Duchess of York and bridesmaids, Rev H R Haweis. (Book ref. 24754)  £60.00

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