$2,400
Nineteenth Century Leather bound Autograph Album. Album with brass clasp and cameo of a marble statue under beveled glass set into the front cover, a.e.g., the whole housed in a specially made box covered inside and out with crimson velvet, containing photographs and signatures of internationally famous actors of the period, collected in Boston between 1875 and 1883, including Sarah Bernhardt, Ellen Terry, Therese Tietjen, Tommaso Salvini, Edwin Booth, Clara Louise Kellogg, Adelaide Phillips, Mary Frances Scott Siddons, Eugenie Pappenheim, Annie Louise Cary, Ernesto Rossi, John Gilbert, William Warren, Henry Irving, and others; twenty-nine large photos with signatures, seven smaller photos of actors, unsigned, 11 x 9 x 3 1/2 in.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-11-18
