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(Photographic Memories series), album of b&w photographs from the Francis Frith Collection with introductions to each section and descriptive captions, 122 pp, glazed pictorial boards (no d/w, but there is no evidence there ever was one), in very good condition, Frith Book Company (Salisbury, Wiltshire) 2001

24.4 x 18.1 cm, 610g, ISBN 1 85937 075 6

The Victorian pioneer photographer Francis Frith set up his business in 1860 to supply photographs for sale, and later to publish picture postcards.  His archive continued after his death in 1898, and eventually contained nearly 400,000 photographs.

This book is still in print in a hardback edition at £19.00 – if you can eventually find it on the publisher’s thoroughly muddling website . . . .