1900s UK & Scotland Album w/ West Indies Cocoa Plantation Photographs

$900.00

Edwardian era family, presumably with investments in a British Colonial cocoa plantation.    (3) hand colored artistic photographs of cocoa pods and (4) portraits of plantation laborers stand above the admittedly attractive pastorals and sunsets.    Quilted black leather binding with ornate gilt edges and marbleized endpapers measures 10 x 12”. (60) total heavy board pages of which (17) are...

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Edwardian era family, presumably with investments in a British Colonial cocoa plantation. 

 

(3) hand colored artistic photographs of cocoa pods and (4) portraits of plantation laborers stand above the admittedly attractive pastorals and sunsets. 

 

Quilted black leather binding with ornate gilt edges and marbleized endpapers measures 10 x 12”. (60) total heavy board pages of which (17) are used by roughly a hundred photographs. Minimal wear to the spine and minor foxing to pages. 

 

All images are pasted. Only the best can be exhibited here, please contact for a broader view of the album.