Catalogue Of Pictures And Historical Relics.
£25.00
Publisher
Madame Tussaud and Sons' Exhibition, Marylebone Road.
Place
London
Date
[1901]
Synopsis
Compiled by w. wheeler. illustrated from photographs by b. foulkes winks. [cover title: catalogue of napoleonic relics pictures and other works of art and curiosities].
Item Description
8vo. 7.75 x 6.75 inches. 64 pp. Bound in original red cloth, gilt with decorative gilt title block on front board. A little wear to extremities with darkening of spine and browning of flyleaves; otherwise a very good clean copy. Notice of death of Queen Victoria during printing of the Catalogue tipped into p.10. Press cutting, 'The End Of Empire' (Napoleon III) pinned to first free endpaper. Illustrated by frontispiece and by black and white text figures. Decorated by initial and endpiece vignette. 1901 catalogue of the paintings and historical relics held at the Madame Tussaud Exhibition in London, with a strong emphasis on the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. Marie Tussaud (1761-1850) arrived in Britain in 1802 and began touring her exhibition until the first permanent exhibition was established in Baker Street in 1835, moving to Marylebone Road 1884. Photographs by Benjamin Foulkes Winks (1861-1929), camera manufacturer, photographic wholesaler and retailer and member of the Royal Photographic Society, 1900-29 (see online discussion, 2012). Scarce title.
[Stock No. 28273]
