Common Heritage: Documents and Sources Relating to German-British Relations in the Archives and Collections of Windsor and Coburg. Vol. 2: The Photograph Collections and Private Libraries. Ed. by Franz Bosbach, John R. Davis, and Karina Urbach; comp. by Oliver Walton, based on preliminary work by Sonja Schultheiss-Heinz. (Prinz-Albert-Forschungen / Prince Albert Research Publications, 7/2.) Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. 2018. 799 pp. €161.90. isbn 978 3 428 15190 5 (hardback); 978 3 428 55190 3 (ebook). The first volume in this series was devoted to documents in the Royal Archives and at coburg concerning Anglo-German relations. This one takes us to the libraries and photograph collections—at coburg (home of Prince Albert) and several in Britain. The history of the British libraries has long been confused, beginning with the incorrect assumption that George IV gave all his father’s books to the nation. In fact, some remain at Windsor. Later on, Queen Victoria and the Prince consort, in their separate apartments, gathered their own, also separate, libraries. This project is concerned with Britain and Germany, and thus focuses only on those parts of the various nineteenth-century libraries having some relation to the matter, whether literature, politics, travel, or the fine arts. The result is naturally imbalanced, but it gives a good idea of the breadth of reading that was expected, anticipated, or perhaps accomplished. The Queen’s private library in 1843 emerges as distinctly modest in its German holdings, with fewer than 150 titles. Prince Albert’s, fruit of determination to accustom himself to his new country and language, and reflecting an extraordinary range of interests, was a distinct contrast: over 600 in the 1843 catalogue, and almost 4,000 in about i860. ‘About’ is an important word, for there are books in this list at least as late as 1880, long after Albert’s death. These libraries were mostly dispersed among the royal palaces in the twentieth century, and their virtual reassembly in this volume is the result of a great deal of teamwork. It is a reminder of the complications lying behind the easy phrase ‘the royal library’, where there are several and where, naturally enough, books moved round buildings, towns, and family relatives. The first part of the volume contains a catalogue of part of the immense photograph collection in England and coburg. Both Victoria and Albert were eager in the new medium: Albert’s first experience of being photographed was in 1842 when he sat (unsuccessfully) to a photographer who had recently established himself in Brighton. In albums, cartes de visite, studio portraits, and landscapes, some bought and some commissioned, they assembled a collection that deserves much wider study.