VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS, late 19th century

PORTRAITURE INTEREST, late 19th century. An album containing 32 cartes-de-visite and 8 cabinet cards, sizes approx. 100 x 65mm and 165 x 105mm. Subjects include portraiture from studios primarily in London, surrounding UK towns, and Naples; also containing an interesting studio portrait of a man with a mustache, dressed in Asian costume, taken by the Rafael Bini Studio in Iquique, Chile. Other photographers include: EH Speight, Rugby; A&G Taylor, London; JS Hazard, Clapham Common; WH Preswich, London; Johnston & Co., Stoke Newington; Napoleon Syrus, Islington; J Holloway; JW Gorsuch, Upper Holloway; H Gude, Maidenhead; Walter Kevis, Petworth; GW Allen, Clacton-on-Sea; Ernest Pearce, Stoke Newington; AJ Adkins, Stoke Newington; Daniel Stacy, Islington; W Bates, High Holborn; HT Trew, Highgate; JR Walker, Clerkenwell; James Brading, Newport; R Cartwright, Islington; G. Arena, Naples; William A Thomas, Hastings, and others. Housed in 'Our Island Home Album', a commercial photograph album measuring 300 x 220mm, with coloured lithograph pages, bound in brown morocco with stamped floral and geometric decoration to both covers, metal clasp, edges rubbed wtih loss to exterior spine.