Good, Frank Mason Selected Photographs of the Nile and its Scenery including some of its most Ancient Temples, etc. etc. London: A. Shapcott, [1874]. First edition, oblong 4to, original cloth, tinted lithographic title-page, 20 albumen print photographs (10 x 16.5cm), on linen-hinged card mounts as issued, mounts with lithographic captions and borders, tissue-guards throughout, covers sunned, front inner hinge cracked, initial blank spotted [Gernsheim 584]

Note: Rare: no copies traced in libraries. 'Frank Mason Good is best known for his series of views of the Middle East taken on four separate tours of the area in the 1860s and 1870s. He first travelled to Egypt as assistant to Francis Frith in late 1857. He joined the Photographic Society in 1864, and in 1880 served as a judge of its annual exhibition' (National Portrait Gallery, online). Provenance: Contemporary prize plate to front pastedown, awarded to A. Yuille, address at head 56 Penywern Road; 'Yuille' is possibly a misspelling, as the orientalist Sir Henry Yule (1833-1885) is known to have lived on the same street.