MARTIN (Charles Wykeham). The History and Description of Leeds Castle, Kent.1869

Westminster: Nichols and Sons, First edition, folio (380 x 270 mm), x, 210, [2], xxxvipp., 8 mounted albumen prints (145 x 200 mm) by John Cruttenden of Maidstone, title printed in red and black (working loose), publisher's red cloth, upper cover waterstained. Leeds Castle was the country seat of Charles Wykeham Martin (1801-1870), an English Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons in three periods between 1841 and 1870. Cruttenden had exhibited two of his images of Leeds Castle at the Photographic Society's 1861 Exhibition. Gernsheim, 458.