Photograph album containing signed portraits of Radcliffe and his wife, and 108 cartes-de-visite of Eton schoolboys, including several dressed for the 'Procession of Boats'. Mainly taken by the studio of Alfred D. Kissack of Eton.

Possibly a presentation to Radcliffe and his wife. 4to photograph album, in heavily-worn leather binding, all edges gilt, lacking clasp and spine, containing a total of 113 photographs, including 108 albumen cartes-de-visite, each print approximately 9 x 5.5 cm, and each laid down on a gilt-edged card mount roughly 10.5 x 6 cm. The large majority of the photographs are in excellent condition, with some carrying a small pinhole at the head (obscured by their mounts). Three pages of the album carry minor damage, otherwise good and tight internally. Almost all from the studio of Alfred D. Kissack of Eton and Windsor. None of the sitters is identified, though many of them pose in Eton collars. Thirteen are dressed in the costume of the yearly 'Procession of Boats', with garlanded straw boaters carrrying the names 'Defiance', 'Alexander', 'Thetis', 'Hibernia', 'St. George', 'Dreadnought'; a further two are in naval costume, with two in military uniform, two in cricket caps and two dressed for hunting. Several of the later photographs show members of pop, with waistcoats and the first sproutings of facial hair. The central leaves of the album carry four photographs by Hills & Saunders of Eton and a fifth by Kissack, each placed on a single page: the first (8.5 x 5.5 cm; on 14.5 x 10.5 cm mount) showing a silhouette drawing of the bust of a top-hatted Eton schoolboy; the second (9 x 6 cm; on 16 x 11.5 cm mount) a studio photograph of R. C. Radcliffe, and signed by him on the mount below the photograph; the third (9 x 5.5 cm; on 16 x 11.5 cm mount) of Radcliffe's wife, signed by her ('M. Radcliffe') on the mount below the photograph; the fourth (14 x 9.5 cm; on 16 x 10.5 mount) of a young cleric (Radcliffe in his youth?); the fifth (14 x 9 cm; on 16 x 10.5 mount) a full-length studio photograph of two schoolboys, with Eton collars, and one with an Albert chain to his waistcoat, posing arm-in-arm.