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ELLIOTT & FRY
An unusual sample book issued by the photographers Elliott and Fry (of London), with composites
of the studio’s portrait work of famous men and women of arts and letters. Includes royal figures
Empress Eugenie and Don Carlos, plus Trollope, Foster, Ruskin, Browning, Tennyson, Carlyle,
Swinburn, Emerson,Wagner, stars of the stage who worked with Gilbert and Sullivan, and more.
With approximately 1300 tiny thumbnail examples on 28 mounts.Albumen prints, overall size 7
1
/
2
x5
inches (19.1x12.7 cm.), each with an inventory number in the plate. Small 4to, cloth; edgewear;
several leaves detached. Circa 1880
[300/450]
From the Collection of John Silverstein
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