Woodbury & Page, Photographers
Java. [Batavia: c.1880].
Oblong 2° (310 x 418mm). 84 albumen photographs (198 x 243mm) mounted on 50 card leaves on cloth stubs, all edges gilt. Indonesian binding of heavily embossed leather, silver gilt and copper bosses at corners, remains of clasp on lower cover, titled Java in heavy, engraved silver gilt lettering affixed to upper cover, bevelled edges, patterned gilt endpapers.
REMARKABLE EXAMPLE OF A COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM of Indonesian subjects produced by Woodbury & Page, c. 1880 and elaborately bound in Indonesia. A full-length portrait of Sultan Hamengkubuwana VII faces his stiffly posed court officials. Other images are of Jokjakarta, domestic or theatrical subjects, landscape and industry. Reed, pp. 29-35.
Woodbury & Page, Photographers
Java. [Batavia: c.1880].
Oblong 2° (310 x 418mm). 84 albumen photographs (198 x 243mm) mounted on 50 card leaves on cloth stubs, all edges gilt. Indonesian binding of heavily embossed leather, silver gilt and copper bosses at corners, remains of clasp on lower cover, titled Java in heavy, engraved silver gilt lettering affixed to upper cover, bevelled edges, patterned gilt endpapers.
REMARKABLE EXAMPLE OF A COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM of Indonesian subjects produced by Woodbury & Page, c. 1880 and elaborately bound in Indonesia. A full-length portrait of Sultan Hamengkubuwana VII faces his stiffly posed court officials. Other images are of Jokjakarta, domestic or theatrical subjects, landscape and industry. Reed, pp. 29-35.
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