Research Catalog

Title

The gossiping photographer on the Rhine.

Author

Frith, Francis

Publication

• Reigate [England] : Frith, [1864]
• London : J.S. Virtue, printer.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• F. Frith & Co., publisher.
• J.S. Virtue and Co., printer.

Description

1 unnumbered page, 32 pages, 15 unnumbered leaves of plates : black and white illustrations, map; 29 cm

Subject

• Frith, Francis > Travel > Rhine River Valley
• Frith, Francis > Travel > Germany (West)
• Landscape photography > Rhine River Valley
• Landscape photography > Germany (West)
• Travel photography > Rhine River Valley
• Travel photography > Germany (West)
• Rhine River Valley > Description and travel
• Rhine River Valley > Pictorial works
• Rhine River Valley > Photographs
• Germany (West) > Description and travel
• Germany (West) > Pictorial works
• Germany (West) > Photographs

Genre/Form

• Photographic prints – Great Britain – 19th century.
• Albumen prints – Great Britain – 19th century.
• Landscape photographs – Great Britain – 19th century.
• Cityscape photographs – Great Britain – 19th century.

Note

• "Introduction" (page 1) signed: The gossiping photographer.
• 2011 edition published with name of author/photographer: Francis Frith.
• Date of publication from British Library.
• Companion volume to Frith's The gossiping photographer at Hastings (Reigate : Frith, 1864). See Goldschmidt & Naef. Truthful lens, 65.
• Contains 16 mounted albumen photographic prints (one on title page), comprising map and 15 views of scenes and buildings in the Rhine River Valley. Selection and order of the views varies among copies. Size: 9 x 13 cm (on title page), 16 x 19 cm (map) and approximately 13 x 18 cm.

Indexed In (note)

• British Library. Cat. of photographically illustrated books
• Gernsheim, H. Incunabula of British photographic literature

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available online (George Eastman House Library copy) via Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

Provenance (note)

• NYPL copy inscribed on front pastedown: "'Charlie' from 'Natch,' Truro, New Years day, 1870." With bookseller's ticket of Netherton, Lemon Street, Truro.

Binding (note)

• Publisher's red cloth boards, gilt.

Contents

Illustrations (NYPL copy): The Drachenfels from Honnef (on title page) -- Map of the Rhine, from Bonn to Bingen -- Ruins of the Episcopal Palace, Andernach -- Leudesdorf, and distant view of Andernach -- The Moselle bridge, Coblentz -- Ehrenbreitstein -- Lahnstein, with the Castle of Lahneck -- Marksburg -- Rheinfels and St. Goar -- Oberwesel -- Schönberg -- Leibenstein -- Caub and the Pfalz -- Old house at Bacharach -- Bacharach -- Reindebach and the Furstenburg.

Call Number

MFZ (Frith) 14-3032

OCLC

4066333

Author

Frith, Francis, author, photographer.

Title

The gossiping photographer on the Rhine.

Publisher

Reigate [England] : Frith, [1864]

Manufacturer

London : J.S. Virtue, printer.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

British Library. Cat. of photographically illustrated books, 10260.f.12. http://vincent.bl.uk/catalogues/photographyinbooks/record.asp?RecordID=1414

Gernsheim, H. Incunabula of British photographic literature, 242

Additional Formats

Also available online (George Eastman House Library copy) via Nineteenth Century Collections Online.

Binding

Publisher's red cloth boards, gilt.

Provenance

NYPL copy inscribed on front pastedown: "'Charlie' from 'Natch,' Truro, New Years day, 1870." With bookseller's ticket of Netherton, Lemon Street, Truro. NN

Connect to:

NYPL Digital Collections

Place of Publication

England Reigate.

Added Author

F. Frith & Co., publisher.

J.S. Virtue and Co., printer.

Research Call Number

MFZ (Frith) 14-3032