A manual of photography

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Limited edition

London : John Joseph Griffin Co., 1853. Third edition, enlarged. Cabinet Edition of the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, Second Division : applied sciences . Octavo (195 x 135 mm), blind-stamped and lettered red cloth, gilt lettering to spine (a few marks and slight wear to head and foot); publisher s advertisements to endpapers, pp. 8 (publisher s catalogue, dated November, 1852), chromolithographed frontispiece with tissue guard, series title, pp. x; 321; [blank]; unnumbered leaf (catalogue for Photographic Apparatus, dated January, 1853), 97 112 (Griffin s Scientific Circular, March 1852, being A descriptive and illustrated catalogue of photographic apparatus, microscopes, tool chests, cabinets of minerals, etc. offered for sale at the affixed prices by John Joseph Griffin and Company ); illustrated with in-text vignettes; a few small stains to fore-edge, small loss to upper margin of title page, a very good copy. First published in 1841, and substantially enlarged in subsequent editions, Hunt s Manual of Photography is one of the first treatises on the subject, and includes chapters on the daguerreotype.

• Binding: Hardcover

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