Item #175586 MacPherson's Vatican Sculptures. Robert MacPherson.
MacPherson's Vatican Sculptures
MacPherson's Vatican Sculptures
MacPherson's Vatican Sculptures
MacPherson's Vatican Sculptures
MacPherson's Vatican Sculptures
MacPherson's Vatican Sculptures

MacPherson's Vatican Sculptures

Place of publication not identified: publisher not identified, 1865, circa. Vellum. Full thick vellum with red leather applied to spine. 124 mounted and hand-numbered and identified photographs showing 126 sculptures (busts No. 37-38-39 appear to be included in one photograph) and 6 mounted interior views of the sculpture galleries. No title-page, but a ffep followed by a mounted sheet from the Photographer detailing the contents and the series). VG, rip to ffep at top right corner with loss, minor foxing to some of the mounting pages of the photographs, the photographs have minimal lightening from age. Wuite fresh. Item #175586

There is handwritten identifiucation on nearly every mounted plate below the image and also the photographer's oval stamp. Bookplate of Robert Wallace Hamilton inside front cover, ownership name of Annie Ruth Driscoll on ffep. An early use of photography to illustrate a book.

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