Leporello albums or photo-lithographs of Margate

Margate in Maps and Pictures

compiled by Anthony Lee

Click on pictures for a larger image

CONTENTS: Introduction Rock & Co. Charles, Reynolds & Co. The Album of Margate Views: pre-1889 The New Album of Margate Views: pre-1889 Charles, Reynolds & Co. The Album of Margate Views: post-1889 Wm. Z., London. The Album of Margate Views: post-1889 Charles, Reynolds & Co. The Album of Margate Views: [Larger album] post-1889
Leporello Albums: Introduction
Books of steel line-engraved vignettes had disappeared by about 1880, at which time real photographs were still relatively expensive and the picture postcard had not yet arrived. This left a gap in the market which was filled by the rather unsatisfactory sepia-tinted ‘photo-lithographs’, printed on coated paper and largely produced in Lower Saxony, Germany. These photo-lithographs usually have an essentially photographic base to which has been added hand-working, giving a picture with the appearance of both a photograph and a drawing. The process of ‘photo-lithography’ is described in more detail here. With the demise of books of steel line-engraved vignettes, Rock and Co. reissued some of their vignettes in Leporello album form.
Their small Queen’s Album of Margate, just 11 cm by 7½ cm, contained 12 photo-lithographs, based on some of their engravings and carrying the dates of the original engravings.
	Newman also reissued some of their engravings in the form of Leporello albums, but these were not photo-lithographs, but their old engravings, just cropped to a rectangular format and printed on coated paper.
Their Imperial Album: Recollections of Margate and Neighbourhood was 10½ cm by 15½ cm and contained 20 views.
	They also produced Recollections of Westgate and Neighbourhood which was larger, 14 cm by 19½ cm, and contained 22 views.
Leporello albums containing photo-lithographs of Margate are undated, often with no publishers name. Some dating can be done on the basis of prominent landmarks such as the Clock tower at Margate, built to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee of 1887 and completed in 1889.
On this basis, The Album of Margate Views, in a relatively plain red cover, and published by Charles, Reynolds & Co., dates to pre-1889. It is one of the albums of smaller size published by Charles, Reynolds & Co, being 14 cm by 19½ cm. It contains 10 standard size views, and one two-panel view, The New Marine Road.
	On the rear pastedown is an advertisement for Charles, Reynolds & Co., then at Milk Street, Cheapside in London.
Also dating to pre-1889 is The New Album of Margate Views. This was published in a decorative pebble-grain cloth stamped in gilt, in blue covers, 14½ cm by 18½ cm. The album contained 18 standard size views, one two-panel view (of Westgate) and one eight-panel view of Margate. No publisher is given.
	It was also produced with red covers
Other Leporello albums were published post-1889 as they show the Jubilee Clock tower.
The Album of Margate Views published by Charles Reynolds & Co., now of Fore Street in London, is 15 cm by 20½ cm, and contains two views each spreading over two pages, three panoramas one above the other, occupying just two pages in total, four pages with three views per page, and two pages with two views a page.
	Another album under the same title, and of the same size, was published by Wm. Z. of London, and contains 2 half size views, 17 standard size views, one two-panel view and one four-panel view.
Some of these same views appear in The Album of Margate Views, which appears in pebble-grain green cloth stamped in gilt, with or without the publishers name, Charles, Reynolds and Co. The Album is larger than the earlier album published by Charles, Reynolds & Co, being 16½ cm by 22 cm. It contains 8 standard size views, four four-panel views and one six-panel view.
	It was also published in a red cover.
On the rear pastedown is an advertisement for Charles, Reynolds & Co., giving their address as Fore Street, London. The advertisement gives a list of the Albums of Views published by Charles, Reynolds & Co.
top of section \| top of page

Rock & Co. The Queen's Album of Margate

Cliftonville Hotel and Ethelbert Crescent, 1 October 1872	Ethelbert Terrace, Cliftonville, July 1868	Fort, 27 May 1868	Jetty, 20 May 1868

Lower Marine Parade and Pier, 27 May 1868	Lower Marine Terrace, 24 June 1868	No Man's Land, 10 July 1868	Paragon, 1 July 1863

Royal Crescent, 22 January 1867	Sands, Margate, 10 July 1868	Upper Marine Terrace, 24 January 1868	Warrior Crescent and Ethelbert Square, Cliftonville, 1 October 1872
Royal Cabinet Album

Royal Deaf and Dumb Asylum 10 May 1875 Rock	Royal Sea Bathing Infirmary 2 April 1875	Crescent College 2 April 1875	Magdala Villas 20 June 1874

Aquarium 1 May 1875 [never built]	Buenos Ayres May 1868
top of section \| top of page
Charles, Reynolds & Co. The Album of Margate Views pre-1889

Cliftonville Hotel	Deaf and Dumb Asylum	Fort Paragon and Bandstand	Harbour

Jetty, Margate	Lighthouse and Harbour	New Jetty Extension	New Marine Road [Panorama]

Pier	St. John's Church	View from the Jetty
top of section \| top of page
The New Album of Margate Views pre-1889

Captain Digby	Cliftonville Hotel	Fort Crescent	The Jetty Pavilion

Margate [Panorama]	Marine Drive and Albert Terrace	North Foreland Lighthouse	Parade

Pier	Reculvers	Royal Crescent	St. John's Church

Trinity Church	View from the Pier
top of section \| top of page
Charles, Reynolds & Co. The Album of Margate Views post-1889

Deaf and Dumb Asylum	Entrance to the Jetty	Jetty, Margate	Jetty, Margate

Jetty, Margate	Kingsgate Castle, near Margate	Lighthouse and Harbour, Margate	Margate from Jetty

Marine Drive	Marine Drive and Clock Tower	Newgate Gapway and Coast Guard Station	New Marine Road [Panorama]

Parade and Marine Terrace [Panorama]	Pier	Reculvers	Royal Seabathing Infirmary

Sands	Shaftesbury House, Y.M.C.A.	Zoological Gardens, Hall by the Sea
top of section \| top of page
Wm. Z., London The Album of Margate Views post-1889

Clifton Baths	Deaf and Dumb Asylum	Flagstaff, Margate	Grotto, A part of

Jetty	La Marguerite	Margate from the Pier	Marine Drive and Clocktower

Marine Palace	Marine Terrace	Newgate Gapway and Coast Guard Station	Parade

Pier and Lighthouse	Reculvers	Royal Sea Bathing Infirmary	Royal Sovereign

St. John's Church	Trinity Church
top of section \| top of page
Charles, Reynolds & Co. The Album of Margate Views [Larger album] post-1889

Deaf and Dumb Asylum	Jetty	Kingsgate Castle, near Margate	Lighthouse and Harbour

Margate [The Flagstaff]	Margate [The Fort]	Margate, Fort Promenade [Panorama]	Marine Drive and Clocktower

Newgate Gapway and Coast Guard Station	Pier	Royal Sea Bathing Infirmary	Sands [Panorama]

St. John's Church	Trinity Church
top of section \| top of page
[END]