Album, probably from ca. 1865, but added to over the years, possibly up through 1910, containing carte de visite photographs of members of various prominent families of Norwich and other towns of the County of Norfolk, England.

1 album (44 photographic prints on cartes de visite mounts) : albumen, 17 x 13 cm (album)

Album contains 44 carte de visite photographs (approx. 11 x 7 cm) , consisting of paper photographs mounted on thin cardboard mounts, usually with photographer studio advertisements on verso, each of which is slipped into sleeves on recto and verso of 48 album leaves, in which a gilt-framed window has been cut. Four of the windows are empty.

Bound in brown morocco-grain leather; triple ruled borders in gilt on upper covers, in black on lower covers; inner gilt dentelles; remnants of broad gold metal clasp on fore-edges of covers; all edges gilt; textured white endpapers.

Spec. Coll. copy: damaged, text block torn from binding. In modern beige cloth-covered clamshell box, with spine label "Carte-de-visite photograph album."

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