The Holy Land, Egypt, Constantinople, Athens, etc. etc
Subtitle: a series of forty-eight photographs
By: taken by Francis Bedford, for H.R.H. the Prince of Wales during the tour in the East, in which, by command, he accompanied his Royal Highness ; with descriptive text and introduction, by W.M. Thompson
Publisher: Day & Son
Published: 1866
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 99
Subjects: Journeys; Pictorial works
Description: "The 48 photographs that appeared in the 1866 quarto volume consisted of ten images from Egypt; 25 from the Holy Land; one from Damascus; four from Lebanon (three of Baalbek); one of the island of Patmos; three of Istanbul; and four of Athens. The first photograph in the book was a group portrait taken in front of the pyramids at Giza, while the remaining nine images from Egypt were of architecture. The 25 images from the Holy Land can be further subdivided: of the 11 images from Jerusalem, seven are of architectural features (three images are from the Haram al-Sharif) and four are of landscape; whereas in the remaining 14 images, six are landscapes, five are townscapes, and one image is of an object (a Samaritan Pentateuch scroll). The book{u2019}s appearance by at least late 1866 suggests that it was issued as the folio series neared completion; in fact, it was expressly described as a cheaper alternative." -- "Holy Land Photographs and Their Worlds: Francis Bedford and the {u2018}Tour in the East,{u2019}" by Linda Wheatley-Irving.
Notes: Publication date from Goldschmidt & Naef and BM (compact ed.). Gernsheim gives pub. date as 1867.

The plates are mounted photographs (albumen prints), most with lithographed captions.

The photographs were first published in larger format in: Bedford,F. Photographic pictures made by Mr. Francis Bedford during the tour in the East in which, by command, he accompanied H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. London: Day & Son, 1863. Cf. Gernsheim, 187.

Title-page printed in red and black within rule border.

Goldschmidt & Naef. Truthful lens, 11.

Gernsheim, H. Incunabula of British photographic literature, 366.

BM (compact ed.), XXV, p. 53.