c1888 Forty-Eight Selected Photographs of Oxford, Permanently printed by the Collotype Process.

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Illustrated, Very Scarce

In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding. Ink inscription to the title page, dated 1888. 48 black and white photographs on 24 plates, including images of Oxford colleges and examination schools, its churches and Oxford Cathedral, the Radcliffe Camera and the university's museum, amongst others. This volume contains a list of all the photographs to the front paste down. These photographs were produced using the collotype process, which was primarily used between the 1870s and 1920s. Alden & Co, set up in 1832, were best known for publishing Oxford’s first ever guide book, Alden’s Oxford Guide, which remained in print for many years. Advertisement for Alden & Co to the rear paste down.