Two Japanese Photo Albums by Adolfo Farsari Impressive pair with a total of 110 photos
[Japan] Two impressive albums with beautiful, decorative Japanese lacquer covers in surprisingly good condition from the studio of Yokohama-based Italian photographer, Adolfo Farsari (1841-98). Both albums were bought and owned by the British musician/composer Paul Bevan, who was the first treasurer (c1892) of the Japanese Society of London and is known to have visited Japan in 1889. Each album has most of its interleaves and many are printed with Farsari's name along with some photography-related text and each also has one of the Farsari studio's composite advertising photos at the beginning. Acquired from a descendant of Bevan's. One album contains 59 photos and the other has 51 photos (incl. the Farsari composite photos).
Each album approx. 36.5 x 29cm.
Both albums in very good condition. The Japanese lacquerware covers and binding are in an unusually good state of preservation. No chipping to the lacquer but some gold powder is starting to come away. Most of the tissue interleaves have foxing but they are loose as issued and have protected the photos very nicely. The first leaf or two of one album has an old stain at the bottom of the mount but overall the pages are very good with only minor wear and occasionally minor spotting. p35031374
