Cody, Wild Bill sig in autograph album 1870's-1880's...

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Cody, Wild Bill sig in autograph album 1870's-1880's Autograph album, 95 sheets (8 x 9.5 in.; 203 x 241 mm.), brown leather boards, marbled endpapers. Calling card of W.K. Kearsley affixed to front free-endpaper. Signed mostly on the pages, a few affixed, dated mostly 1870s and 1880s. Worn at edges and spine as would be expected. British 19th century autograph and photograph album featuring Buffalo Bill, Michael Faraday, Sarah Bernhardt, Kate Greenaway, Lilley Langtry and over 250 other notables. Album includes: W.F. Cody Buffalo Bill 1888, scientist Michael Faraday, actress Sarah Bernhardt, Victorian actors Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, Madge Kendall, E.A. Sothern, and Lillie Langtry, soprano Adelina Patti, author-illustrator Kate Greenaway, Salisbury (Prime Minister), novelist Walter Besant, actor Frank I. Frayne The Dead Shot, probably in 1879 [during a performance in Cincinnati in 1881, 25-year-old actress Annie Von Behren was shot in the head and killed by 18-year-old Frayne, when he pointed a rifle at her and it accidentally discharged]. Among the others who signed the autograph album were Members of Parliament, religious leaders, composers, and members of the Japanese Embassy in Manchester (newspaper articles present). Also included are 17 carte-de-visite photographs.