Thick leatherbound guest book from the offices of London studio photographers W. & D. Downey, 9.25 x 10.5, signed inside in ink by over 800 individuals from a variety of fields—politicians, musicians, scientists, writers, clergymen, and royals from the noteworthy to the obscure—dating from 1861 to 1906. Highlights include: Enrico Caruso, P. T. Barnum, George Bernard Shaw, Thomas Hardy, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Anton Rubinstein, Napoleon III and Eugenie de Montijo, Leopold II of Belgium and Marie Henriette, Sarah Bernhardt, William Gladstone, William T. Stead, Lord Palmerston, Annie Besant, Walter Besant, Emma Eames, Ford Madox Brown, Frederic Leighton, Helena Modjeska, Henry Irving, Henry Ward Beecher, Richard Cobden, Israel Zangwill, John Bright, John Tyndall, Joseph Joachim, Lillian Russell, Louis-Napoleon, Lyon Playfair, Mary Adelaide, Neal Dow, Queen Alexandra, Reverdy Johnson, Richard Owen, Roderick Murchison, Christina Nilsson, Emma Albani, Gustave Dore, Ira D. Sankey, Princess Frederica of Hanover, Max Muller, Richard Le Gallienne, Jerome K. Jerome, Richard Harding Davis, William Holman Hunt, and Clara Butt. Handsomely rebound in full brown morocco with gilt-stamped spine and in fine condition.
