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• Author/Creator:Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882.
  
• Title:Hyperion : a romance / by Henry W. Longfellow ; illustrated with twenty-four photographs of the Rhine, Switzerland, and the Tyrol, by Francis Frith.
  
• Published/Created:London : Alfred William Bennett, 5, Bishopsgate Without, MDCCCLXV [1865]
  
• Physical Description:x, [2], 270, [2] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
  

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  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: PS2273 .H97 1865
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
    

   
• Local Notes:BAC: British Art Center copy bound in publisher's gilt- and blind-stamped red cloth, with gilt edges. Binding signed: JL [John Leighton]. Binder's label: Bound by Westleys. Bookplate: R H L C de Beaumont.
  
• Notes:Printed by Gresham Steam Press.
  The plates are mounted photographs (albumen prints) with letterpress captions each with a tissue guard.
  Title-page printed in blue and red within double rule border.
  
• Format:Book
• References:Gernsheim, H. Incunabula of British photographic literature, 268
  McLean, R. Victorian publishers' book-binding in cloth and leather, p. 113
  Masterpieces of Victoria photography, 1840-1900, 439
  Armstrong, C. Scenes in a library, p. 284
  
• Subjects:Photography--Great Britain--19th century.
  Europe--Description and travel--Fiction.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Chron.--1865.
  Leighton, John--Bookbinding designer.
  Beaumont, R H L C de--Bookplate.
  Alfred William Bennett--Publisher.
  Westley's--Binder.
  Gresham Steam Press--Printer.
  
• Genre/Form:Photographs.
  Albumen prints.
  
• Also listed under:Frith, Francis, photographer.