Group of Dickens Photographs 1855-1870 A Fine Collection of Photographs of Dickens DICKENS, Charles. [PHOTOGRAPHY]. London, New York, and Boston: ca. 1855-1870. photographs of Dickens. Various image sizes, from 3 1/2 x 2 3/8 inches (91 x 60 mm.) to 7 5/8 x 6 3/16 inches (193 x 156 mm.). Mounted on heavy card stock, all but one of a uniform folio size, with ink-drawn borders outside of image. In a navy blue portfolio case. Near fine. Seven photographs by Charles and John Watkins (London: 1858 and 1861), one by Herbert Watkins (London: 1859), eight by Mason and Co. (London: 1865-1867), and ten by J. Gurney and Son (New York: 1867-1868). With a photograph of a watercolor portrait by Thomas Unwins (1831), one of an oil portrait by Francis Alexander (Boston: 1842), one of a sketch by Leslie Ward (1870), one made from a daguerreotype by Henri Claudet (1852), and two from daguerreotypes by John Mayall (London: 1855). Four photographs carry the embossed copyright stamp of the London Stereoscopic Co., six are sized for a carte de visite, and several are oval in shape. Two photographs show evidence of a half-tone screen, indicating they have been re-photographed from a printed image. Including full-length, three-quarter, and close-up shots, the photographs show Dickens in a variety of poses: seated at his desk, reading or writing, standing, seated in a chair, leaning against a pillar on the steps of Gad's Hill in a group of family and friends, and seated backwards on a chair in the yard of Gad's Hill, with his daughters Kate and Mamie Dickens. A remarkable collection of mostly original photographs, together showing Dickens over a forty-year period. Size: 12 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. 1390 #18