Photo-Illustrated Books & Photography Albums
RIIS, Jacob (1849-1914). How the Other Half Lives. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890.

8vo. 43 plates including frontispiece after halftone photographs. Original blue-grey cloth stamped in blue and gilt (spine slanted and sunned with some cloth repairs at ends, spotting to covers, joints and fore-corners frayed).

FIRST EDITION OF THIS LANDMARK WORK, in a rare variant binding and printed on thicker paper. See previously lot for the more common issue. Parr & Badger, The Photobook p.53.

This lot is located in Cincinnati.