RARE 1859 Ehninger's Illustrations of Miles Standish photographs by Mathew Brady

Illustrations of Longfellow's Courtship of Miles Standish

By John W. Ehninger
Photographed from the Original Drawings by Brady

New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1859
 

Features eight albumen photographs mounted on thick pages - original photographs taken by Mathew Brady, the eminent American Civil War photographer. The photographs are pictures of Ehninger's drawings. There is a page of Longfellow's poem to go with each photograph. This was the first American use of original photographs of illustrations for a literary work.

Original brown hand-tooled tooled leather with gilt lettering. 44 pages. 12" x 9.5"

Rare and important piece of American photographic literature!

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