Author: PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHS
Title: The Crowned Heads Europe. Thirty Four Bust-Portraits with Short Biographies.
Description: J. F. Schipper & Co. and Munich: Frederick Bruckmann, 1884. Folio. pp. 61> 34 woodburytype photographic portraits. Original red pebble grained cloth, bevelled edges, gilt cloth straps threaded through covers, a little worn and lacking clasps, inner joint tender. An earlier edition with 30 portraits, published in 1880 was seemingly abandoned following the deaths of Maria Alexandrovna of Russia in 1880, and her husband Alexander II of Russia who was assassinated in 1881> complete copies of the early edition are rare. Curiously, their names appear in the contents page of this title, but they are replaced by their successors Alexander III and Maria Feodorovna. Additionally there are 4 additional portraits to the earlier edition: Charles I, King of Roumania and his wife Elizabeth> and Milan, King of Servia and his wife Natalie. Both Roumania [1881] and Servia [1882] were newly created Kingdoms following the Russo-Turkish War in 1878. Two of the portraits> those of Maria Christine, Queen of Spain, and Georgios I of Greece, differ from those in the earlier edition. Four copyright libraries only listed on Jisc [not in BL], 2 further locations listed on OCLC [one in the U.S., one in Spain].

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