The Travels of a Victorian Photographer

This volume pairs Francis Frith's nineteenth-century photographs of British towns, coasts, and countryside with short extracts from Victorian and later writers, arranged as a journey through counties and regions. Frith's glass-plate views of streets, harbors, ruins, and beauty spots sit beside passages that describe the same kinds of places in prose. The editorial selection treats the pictures as the spine of a tour rather than as a monograph on camera technique. The book is a photo-and-text travel anthology, not a novel and not a technical manual of photography.

Bound in green photo-blocked buckram and gilt lettered spine. Dark green slipcase with a photograph in sepia BUT some of the second (and all of the third) printing issued in a plain dark green slipcase.