Cabinet Portrait Gallery Reproduced from Original Photographs by W.&D. Downey. VOLUME FOUR ONLY

London: Cassell and Company, 1894. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Volume FOUR only of a five volume series. This volume contains 36 black and white portraits accompanied by a brief, adulatory biographical piece. Subjects are drawn from many spheres of British society and culture, with an emphasis on royalty, the aristocracy, the stage, and the arts. Among those included are Prince Henry of Battenberg, Henry Irving, George Bernard Shaw, the King of Greece, Sir Edwin Arnold, Lady Randolph Churchill, and the Duke and Duchess of York and Bridesmaids. This is an ex-library volume with the bookplate of the City of York Public Library affixed to the front pastedown. In what was probably an effort to discourage readers from taking photographs, the library applied an unobtrusive but visible embossed stamp to the margins of the photos, not affecting the portrait itself. Despite these factors the photographs are still interesting and attractive. Bound in brown cloth with floral borders to front boards and titles in gilt to front and to spines. Some bumping and rubbing, remains of small white stickers at foot of spine, but otherwise in quite good condition. Save for the small embossed stamps, the photographs are in very good condition. 96 pages. PHOTO/081017.