oblong quarto (242 x 285mm), 58 albumen prints, many with small faint ‘Frith Series’ blindstamp in lower corner, mounted on card recto and verso, most images captioned (and some dated) in ink in a contemporary hand (some spotting and fading to images), contemporary brown half roan (binding slightly worn, covers detached, lacking backstrip)

Provenance

John Charles Williams, Bengal Civil Service (early inscription on preliminary free endpaper)

Gladstone Library, National Liberal Club (armorial bookplate and manuscript note ‘Presented by E.E. Eyre Esq’)

The album contains three portraits of Nautch women from Kashmir, a portrait of two Kulu women with nose rings, and 54 views including Jabalpur, a rock cut temple at Elephanta, the ‘Kutub Minar’ in Delhi, the Taj Mahal (2), views in Kashmir (8), Calcutta (6), Barrackpore, Madras, Bombay (3), Burhanpur, Bassein, Lucknow (7), Benares (2), Cawnpore, Agra, Sikandra, Bindraban, Fatahpur (2), the Tomb of Ranjit Singh at Lahore, Delhi (5), the fort at Gwalior, Simla (3), Murree hill station and church, and the head of the Kulu Valley.