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[DOYLE, Charles Altamont (1832-1893)]. Carte de Visite photograph. [N.p., 1872, from ink caption on verso].
Photograph mounted onto stiff card (97 x 64 mm). Photo toned, lightly foxed, mount is likewise toned. This rare photo of Charles A. Doyle is perhaps the second-known photo of him (the first being a photo of him posing with a young Arthur Conan Doyle, taken on May 1865). Charles A. Doyle illustrated his son’s first Sherlock Holmes adventure, A Study in Scarlet (1887). -- [Together with:] DOYLE, Charles Altamont, illustrator. The Book of Humorous Poetry. Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1893. 8vo. Illustrated throughout by Doyle. Contemporary quarter green morocco over cloth boards, spine stamped in gilt (spine toned, some rubbing, soiling, mild wear to binding, some foxing in text). A wonderful group.