| C.G. Fountaine Elephant folio album "Photographic views taken in Egypt and Greece by C. G. Fontaine" 1862 Folio cover 70.3 x 56.5 x 3.5 cm (album) The Royal Collection RCIN 2081553 LL/93221 Elephant folio album containing 36 photographic views of Egypt and Greece (5 of Athens, and 31 of Egypt), with printed title underneath each photograph and with four pages listing the plates, including a short description. Copies of this volume appear to be very rare. See Gernsheim, 'Incunabula of British Photographic Literature' (1984), no.171. RCINs 2081554-2081589.
Acquired by King Edward VII when Prince of Wales
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