• Unknown (photographer)
• John Taylor (author)

A Book about Bristol; Historical, ecclesiastical, and biographical, from original research

1872

This 398 page album comprises a preface, index, 24 photographs and 1 lithographed map. It shows exterior and interior views of buildings and monuments of Bristol, England.

Title page reads:
A Book about Bristol; Historical, ecclesiastical, and biographical, from original research by John Taylor, Librarian of the Bristol Museum and Library. Author of "A Guide to Clifton," "Tintern Abbey and its Founders", etc. London : Houlston and Sons, Paternoster Row, Bristol: Thomas Kerslake & Co., Queen's Road; William George, 26 Park Street, 1872.

Albumen silver prints

album: 18,9 x 13,1 x 3,4 cm compositions (min.): 7,8 x 6,1 cm compositions (max.): 9,6 x 13,6 cm secondary supports: 18,2 x 11,6 cm

PH1979:0601

• external views
• interior views

- Dark red leather covered coverboards and spine, gilt lettering and decorations on spine, glit decorations and embossed motif on coverboards, pages with gilt edges

inscribed, imprinted and dated

Bristol Avon Angleterre Royaume-Uni

• architecture

• trees
• river
• people
• doors
• houses
• figures (representations)
• windows
• chairs
• stores
• benches
• bas-reliefs
• railings
• statues
• roofs
• shutters
• altars
• buildings
• façades
• signs
• thatched roof
• streets
• lanterns (lighting devices)
• child
• cemetery
• stone wall
• columns (architectural elements)
• church towers
• churches
• cathedral
• arches
• photographs
• entablatures
• pediments
• balustrade
• port
• religious buildings
• floors
• vaulted ceiling
• painting (visual work)
• shops
• sailboats
• bust
• map
• awnings
• pulpit
• capital (column component)
• sidewalks
• lecturn
• wheelbarrow
• grass (plant)
• barrel (container)
• stalls (religious building fixtures)
• stained glass (material) window
• sculptures (visual works)
• horse-drawn carriage