In 1866, Glasgow City arranged through Parliament, to the demolition of the slums of the City. They first wanted to document the area, Thomas Annan was hired as the photographer to carry out this social document. https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/library/files/special/exhibns/month/Mar2006.html
The original images were made on glass, using the wet plate collodion process. The images were then printed, in very limited numbers as albumen prints c1872. They were later produced as carbon prints c1877, using the method perfected by Joseph Swan and patented in 1864. A later edition, after Thomas Annan’s death, was produced in 1900, by Annans’ son, James Craig Annan, as photogravures, a printing process which gives very fine detail.
This edition is the 1900 edition with 50 plates, 100 copies were produced in a red cloth binding and an introduction by William Young, RSW. Published by James MacLehose and Sons of Glasgow. Nameplate pasted in, Bonhill and Alexandria, St. Andrew’s Royal Arch Lodge, No321.
A historical document of the time.

Handling wear to cover and spine. Scattered foxing to pages. Gravures are very good.

£3750