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Lot 479

THOMSON (JOHN)
Street Incidents

22 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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THOMSON (JOHN)

Street Incidents, 21 woodburytypes, printed captions on the mounts, title and some images discoloured (as usual), publisher's red pictorial cloth gilt [cf. The Photobook, vol. I, p.48], 4to, Sampson Low, 1881

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A fine copy of the carefully abridged selection of images from Thomson's Street Life in London, "one of the most significant and far-reaching photobooks in the medium's history." (The Photobook).

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