Group of 10 carte-de-visite portraits of noted European authors, including a combination of real photographs and images of artworks portraying the writers. Subjects include: Victor Hugo, Alfred Lord Tennyson (3), Hans Christian Andersen, Robert Burns, Thomas Carlyle, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Theophile Gautier, and William Wordsworth. In overall fine condition, with clipped corners to Hugo and one of the Tennysons, and various pencil notations on the reverse.