[PHOTOGRAPHS]. Album of photographs of 19th century actors and actresses. Album in-4, 300 x 225. Red chagrin, smooth spine with false nerves extending into 4 large raised bands on the boards, initials A L gilt on the first board, metal clasps, inner gilt roulette, gilt edges. Precious album of 120 photographs in business card format, on albumen paper pasted on cardboard, of some of the most famous actors and actresses of the second half of the 19th century. Taken between 1860 and 1880, they include portraits of Frédérick Lemaitre, Sarah Bernhardt, Marie Favart, Edmond Got, Mounet Sully, the Coquelins, Sophie Croizette, Frédéric Febvre, Émilie Guyon, Dinah Félix, etc. These photographs were taken by different photographers. Most of the boxes seem to be cut at the corners. Missing a clasp. White marks on the boards.