£150
Photography. Late Victorian Oxford. A student's photograph album, Leslie Rimmer Paterson (1866-1935), of Keble College, dated 1887-88, comprising 16 large format b/w and sepia photographs, 23.9 x 30cm, mostly of sporting life, both university and collegiate, including group portraits of the first XI Keble cricket team, the Oxford University Rugby Union XV, the rugby teams of Keble Coll: Oxon v. Trinity Coll: Cambridge, rowing, including the Keble VIII bumped 1888, the 1887 procession of boats, the Torpids 1888, the New College VIII, others, fellow college students, further mixed format and media images of the college and its chapel's exterior, 5 interiors - presumably Paterson's family house, Rock Ferry's church St Peter's, cricket on the green, Liverpool and its docks, etc., pastedown with a lithograph after Louis Wain of Miss Tabby's Academy, mounted onto card leaves and manuscript annotated, contemporary boards, rebacked and recornered, oblong folio (27.6 x 38cm);Mechanical Music: The British Army [Photograph] Album, n.d. [late 19th c], [14]ff, of which the cabinet card format ones are printed in chromolithography after designs by Captain Bunnett, the base enclosing a musical cylinder, presumably Swiss, playing one air, key-wound movement, clasp-mechanism, contemporary embossed pictorial leather over boards, gilt, all edges gilt, 4to, (30 x 24cm), (2)
Provenance: 1st: Rev. Leslie Rimmer Paterson (1866-1935), formerly of Rock Ferry, Merseyside (previously Cheshire), educated at Loretto School and then Oxford, later incumbent at Bishops Langham and Ranworth, Norfolk.
Some wear to the mechanical album. The movement currently winding and playing, however, this is not guaranteed in perpetuity.
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