Lot Essay
According to Newhall this is the second variant of the English edition of Daguerre's manual. It differs from the first only by additions to the title.
Details
L.J.M. Daguerre (transl. J.S. Memes LL.D.)
History of practise of photogenic drawing on the true principles of the Daguerréotype with the new method of dioramic painting...
Board covers (lacks front cover), 8vo., London: Smith, Elder & Co. Cornhill; and Adam Black & Co., Edinburgh, 1839.
History of practise of photogenic drawing on the true principles of the Daguerréotype with the new method of dioramic painting...
Board covers (lacks front cover), 8vo., London: Smith, Elder & Co. Cornhill; and Adam Black & Co., Edinburgh, 1839.
Literature
Gernsheim, H, 'The world's first photographic manual' in Photographic Journal Section A, September 1950, p. 308-310.
Newhall (1971), An historic and descriptive account of the various processes of the daguerreotype..., p.271, no. 10.
Newhall (1971), An historic and descriptive account of the various processes of the daguerreotype..., p.271, no. 10.
Further details
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