Picture Gallery Annual, 1877

iv, 96pp plus forty eight permanent photographs of the featured artists' works. Full morocco leather binding with elaborate gilt and blind ruled decorations front and spine, five raised bands to spine, all page edges gilded, inner gilded dentelles, marbled endpapers. Gorgeous volume. 4to. . Internally fresh and neat, with only the mildest signs of use. Previous owner's name on half title, another ownership stamp opposite, and faint occasional spotting to prelims only. Includes 48 stunning photographs, tipped in and mounted on decorated papers, each printed by the Woodbury Permanent Photographic Company of Great Portland Street, using the pioneering Woodburytype photographic process. Artists featured include William Mulready, Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, Clarkson Stanfield, John Frederick Herring, Samuel Prout, James Duffield Harding, John Martin, William Henry Hunt, David Roberts, George Cattermole, George Lance, Daniel Maclise, Thomas Creswick, Augustus Leopold Egg and Sir Edwin Landseer.