LEVANT, ALBUM OF COSTUME STUDIES & PORTRAITS, c.1880s

Albumen prints (51), each approx. 225 x 170mm (or the reverse), mounted recto and verso on card, comprised of 24 portrait studies taken from life, with associated photographic reproductions of book illustrations on facing leaves, additionally one albumen print of a Samaritan Torah scroll, dedication "A André & Réné 1888", stamped in gilt to front free endpaper Housed in a folio measuring 370 x 300mm, contemporary black pebbble grain morocco, spine with raised bands, gilt edges; some fading and spotting within, a small number of images with minor closed tears, minor waving to mounts.