Beschreibung:

Bagster Family photograph albums. An album containing approximately 150 albumen prints and some salt prints of Eunice Bagster (1777-1877) and her family and home in Windsor, Berkshire, c. 1852-1854, mostly portrait shots of Eunice and other family members, plus members of the Birch, Lyall, Toms families, etc., a few photographs of the family home exteriors and interiors, images mostly 11 x 14 cm and smaller, pasted one or two to a page on rectos and versos with occasional blanks and a few photographs now loose or apparently missing, neatly captioned and often dated throughout, possibly annotated by Samuel and Eunice's youngest son Cornelius, with a later note by Cornelius's daughter Ada (1849-1941) stating that 'This book contains amateur photographs of Old Windsor, the house and garden to which Samuel Bagster retired when leaving the Bible Publishing House... c. 1840', dated 31 May 1936, contemporary morocco-backed cloth boards, heavily rubbed, 8vo, (230 x 150 mm), together with a second photographic scrap album compiled by Cornelius Birch Bagster (1815-1892), c. 1890, containing mounted albumen print photographs including cartes de visite and cabinet cards of Bagster family members, their Old Windsor home and other family friends and acquaintances, plus other letters and ephemera tipped in including In Memoriam cards, a lock of John Bagster's hair with personal business card, sale particulars for Birch Cottage (1880), genealogical family tree material, chromo.scraps, etc., mostly pasted to rectos and versos of stiff card leaves with some blanks and additional material loosely inserted, leaves now sprung and some slightly chipped at edges, contemporary decorative cloth with crude leather reback and cloth bag with fasteners, 4to, plus a partially completed third photograph album containing family photographs and holiday snapshots from c. 1860s to 1930, a total of 6 albumen or gelatin silver prints, some captioned, quarter morocco gilt, rubbed, 4to