is this any interest? on ebay now CP views
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I have waited till I could remember the right term for these kind of books [to be really obsessive of me!]
There are two books that I am aware of , that are relevant to the Crystal Palace.
"The Royal Album of Crystal Palace Views."
12 engravings of the Palace, with very small people included. They are in a concertina between the covers. I used an image I scanned ages ago in the Byzantine section of "A walk through the nave." They must date to after 1862 due to the view of the Great Orchestra."
Made in Germany
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"The New Album of London."
It has 26 engravings of London, with 10 of the Crystal Palace, and again including minature visitors!
Made in Germany
The term for these concertina books is "Leporello"
"Late Victorian Leporello View Albums
One of the many tourist souvenirs on sale were books of views - these generally consisted of a single long page, printed on a single side, folded zig-zag fashion (usually referred to as 'accordion pleat') and mounted within ornate gilded card covers
The term Leporello was apparently first used in the German music publishing business for a folded single sheet - whether it was so called after Leporello in Mozart's Don Giovani who, it will be recalled, held an expanding note of his master's amatory conquests or vice versa I have not yet determined. Souvenirs based on a folded printed sheet are still being marketed as Leporello-sheets.
Most albums date from about 1880 and extend to about 1905 — obviously intended for the mass tourist market, they replaced the much more expensive book of engraved (later lithographed) views that made their appearance from the 1840's and were, in turn, replaced by the cheap postcards collected in their millions by the Edwardian tourists. The views on these postcards were then often recycled into view albums though generally these date post 1918.
Most of the early examples appear to have been printed in Lower Saxony, Germany (which also produced many of the early postcards) - there a few companies had specialised in the required paper using the fine pottery clay to give a suitable coating and in the lithographic techniques needed to print photographs at a low enough cost for this mass market — it was possible from the 1870's (or earlier) to buy high quality photographs to stick into scrap-albums but this was probably aimed more at the affluent middle class tourist rather than the mass market. By the late 1890's anti-German feeling was running high and 'British made' began to be prominently displayed.
Photographic views, though an attractive souvenir for the tourist, had one major defect for the producer - in a rapidly changing environment, views rapidly went out of date! No publication I have includes a date of publication, many do not even indicate a publisher. In several cases 'artistic' corrections to the photograph (or the lithographic plate ?) are obvious to stretch the photograph to last another year. In other cases artistic licence was employed to draw in buildings either in the course of construction or merely planned. Many of the 'photographs' on closer examination turn out to be drawn views possibly superimposed on a photographed landscape. In some cases there is more than a hint of a suggestion that the photograph was actually based on a much earlier engraved view!.
The photographs/views contained within the covers can span many years but some detail will fix an earliest publication date."
http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook ... albums.htm
There are two books that I am aware of , that are relevant to the Crystal Palace.
"The Royal Album of Crystal Palace Views."
12 engravings of the Palace, with very small people included. They are in a concertina between the covers. I used an image I scanned ages ago in the Byzantine section of "A walk through the nave." They must date to after 1862 due to the view of the Great Orchestra."
Made in Germany
and
"The New Album of London."
It has 26 engravings of London, with 10 of the Crystal Palace, and again including minature visitors!
Made in Germany
The term for these concertina books is "Leporello"
"Late Victorian Leporello View Albums
One of the many tourist souvenirs on sale were books of views - these generally consisted of a single long page, printed on a single side, folded zig-zag fashion (usually referred to as 'accordion pleat') and mounted within ornate gilded card covers
The term Leporello was apparently first used in the German music publishing business for a folded single sheet - whether it was so called after Leporello in Mozart's Don Giovani who, it will be recalled, held an expanding note of his master's amatory conquests or vice versa I have not yet determined. Souvenirs based on a folded printed sheet are still being marketed as Leporello-sheets.
Most albums date from about 1880 and extend to about 1905 — obviously intended for the mass tourist market, they replaced the much more expensive book of engraved (later lithographed) views that made their appearance from the 1840's and were, in turn, replaced by the cheap postcards collected in their millions by the Edwardian tourists. The views on these postcards were then often recycled into view albums though generally these date post 1918.
Most of the early examples appear to have been printed in Lower Saxony, Germany (which also produced many of the early postcards) - there a few companies had specialised in the required paper using the fine pottery clay to give a suitable coating and in the lithographic techniques needed to print photographs at a low enough cost for this mass market — it was possible from the 1870's (or earlier) to buy high quality photographs to stick into scrap-albums but this was probably aimed more at the affluent middle class tourist rather than the mass market. By the late 1890's anti-German feeling was running high and 'British made' began to be prominently displayed.
Photographic views, though an attractive souvenir for the tourist, had one major defect for the producer - in a rapidly changing environment, views rapidly went out of date! No publication I have includes a date of publication, many do not even indicate a publisher. In several cases 'artistic' corrections to the photograph (or the lithographic plate ?) are obvious to stretch the photograph to last another year. In other cases artistic licence was employed to draw in buildings either in the course of construction or merely planned. Many of the 'photographs' on closer examination turn out to be drawn views possibly superimposed on a photographed landscape. In some cases there is more than a hint of a suggestion that the photograph was actually based on a much earlier engraved view!.
The photographs/views contained within the covers can span many years but some detail will fix an earliest publication date."
http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook ... albums.htm
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