NSW's Leather Bound Album of Sepia Photographs (1889)

Photographs. New South Wales' leather bound collection of sepia albumen images tipped into the album. (Sydney: Charles Potter, Government Printer), 1889. Album of mounted (100) albumen silver print photographs. Oblong quarto, full blue morocco blind stamped in gilt, all edges gilt, each photograph approximately 140 x 190 mm. An exceptional album of photographic views of Sydney and environs, commissioned and printed by the New South Wales Government, probably in very small numbers and for presentation to visiting dignitaries. The photographs, although without studio imprints, can be attributed to the highly successful Sydney commercial photographers John Paine and Charles Bayliss