[Faithful, Emily]

[Emily Faithfull Interest] Family Albumin of 45 Original Contemporary Photographs Including Extended Family, Ancestors, Offspring, Uncles and Cousins

A nearly full album of 45 vintage photographs, housed in an excellent and contemporary full brown morocco folding case with bold embossed patterning on both covers, thick card paper mounting boards with all edges gilt. Nearly all of the photos with contemporary holograph names on tabs pasted below the photos, assembled by a close family member, as evidenced by "Father" and "Mother" and grandfather. photos, ca. 1870-75. A wonderful, one-of-a-kind record of the Faithfull Family, as well as the extended family, especially on Emily Faithfull's uncle's side, beginning with Rev. George Renaud who married Georgiana Cecillia Grantham Faithfull. Individuals found in the album include Constance Chittenden, Fanny, Mimi, J.G. and James Faithful, Cecilia and Francis Storr, Monier Williams, Julia G., Olive, Stanley, Ella and Cyril Williams, Arthur and Eustace Faithfull, Emily and Robert Davies, and others, including some not labeled. The connection with Emily Faithfull, women's activist and first woman publisher, is through Emily's Father, Rev. Ferdinand Faithfull, and through his brother (i.e. Emily Faithfull's uncle, Reverend Francis Faithfull, of which many of the progeny and spouses are represented in the photographs). Among them are some important names, including Monier Williams (1819-1899), Professor at Oxford, Rev. Francis Faithfull (Uncle to Emily Faithfull) and many of the Faithfull descendants who were accomplished and known in many areas of society and culture. All vintage photographs, well-preserved and in excellent condition.

Price: $3,250.00   Item #4064