English etymologies

by Henry William Fox Talbot

$1,250 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

London: John Murray, 1847. First and only edition, and one of only 500 copies printed; 8vo, pp. viii, 492, 16-p. publisher's catalogue dated January, 1847; original brown blindstamped cloth, gilt lettering on spine; bottom of spine a little cracked, prelims lightly foxed; a very good, sound copy. A little-known work by the photography pioneer. Talbot not only invented the negative/positive process that was the forerunner of modern photographic materials, but

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