• Charles May (photographer)
• Charles May (author)

May's Views of Buckinghamshire

printed ca. 1862

- 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.

Albumen silver prints

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.)

PH1990:0327:001-073

• exterior views
• interior views

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."

Buckinghamshire; England; United Kingdom;

• architecture