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Quarter leather and green buckram volume measuring 308 x 263 mm, with the first and second series bound in together. The work comprises a descriptive tour of the Holy Land by Henry Baker Tristram, each chapter illustrated by a photographic view by an unidentified photographer, reproduced in woodburytype. The first series contains 23 prints, the second 22. The titlepage states that the complete work will contain 'forty-four permanent photograph,' but this does not apparently include the frontispiece to the first series, which brings the total for the two parts to 45 photographs. The wrappers for each series is bound in at the end of the volume, and this indicates that the first series appeared in January 1881 and the second in October 1882, each series priced at half-a-crown. The photographs are ascribed to Frank Mason Good on the basis of print 19, which is signed by the photographer: it is tentatively assumed that the remaining photographs are also by Good. Earlier works by Tristram using photography: 'Scenes in the East. Consisting of twelve coloured photographic views of places mentioned in the Bible, with descriptive letter-press' (London, 1870), chromolithographs from photographs by Rev. A. A. Isaacs, J. Graham, Rev. G. W. Bridges, F. Frith; 'The land of Israel; a journal of travels in Palestine' (London, 1865), preface credits 'the careful photographs of my friend, Mr. H. T. Bowman' ; 'The land of Moab. Travels and discoveries on the east side of the Dead Sea and the Jordan' (London, 1873), 'to Messrs. Buxton and Johnson I owe all the illustrations of the volume, selected from the splendid series of 180 photographs which they secured and generously placed at my disposal.'