May's Views of Buckinghamshire

People:

Charles May (photographer)
Charles May (author)

Title:

May's Views of Buckinghamshire

Date:

printed ca. 1862

Description:

- Contemporary binding consists of purple cloth-covered boards and purple leather-covered spine and corners. There is a gold gilt inscription on the spine. Endpapers and secondary supports are of light brownish white paper. The book is comprised of 34 pages of text and 74 photographs.

Form:
books
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 book(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver prints

Dimensions:

book (closed): 30.7 x 25 x 4 cm (12 1/16 x 9 13/16 x 1 9/16 in.) comps. (approx.): 14.7 x 19.8 cm (5 13/16 x 7 13/16 in.) secondary supports (approx.): 23.9 x 29.7 cm (9 7/16 x 11 11/16 in.) pages (approx.): 28.3 x 21.8 cm (11 1/8 x 8 9/16 in.)

Reference number:

PH1990:0327:001-073

Point of View:

exterior views
interior views

Inscription:

stamped - in typescript and embossed gold gilt, on the spine, u.c.: "MAY'S / VIEWS / OF / BUCKINGHAMSHIRE." labelled, inscribed and dated - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on a paper label attached to the c. of the front flyleaf, u.c. to l.c.: "may. a Photographer in Aylesbury. / In museum history Aylesbury, is a copy of / "may and Rolls", containing more photographs (?) / The Title Page states that the vol was printed and / Bound by Parker. Oxford in 1862. / This is a very rare book."

Location:

Buckinghamshire; England; United Kingdom;

Subject:

architecture

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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