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ROBERT HUNT
A Popular Treatise on the Art of Photography, including Daguerréotype, and all the new methods of producing pictures by the chemical agency of light. Glasgow: Richard Griffin and Company, 1841. 8° (225 x 136mm). Engraved frontispiece. (Occasional light spotting and soiling.) 20th-century dark green morocco, lettered in gilt up the spine.
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST GENERAL TREATISE ON PHOTOGRAPHY. For the next two decades Hunt, a founding member of the Calotype Club and Photographic Society of Great Britain, was the leading writer on the subject. The frontispiece engraving shows an image in negative, and is among the earliest such illustrations. Gernsheim Incunabula 653.
A Popular Treatise on the Art of Photography, including Daguerréotype, and all the new methods of producing pictures by the chemical agency of light. Glasgow: Richard Griffin and Company, 1841. 8° (225 x 136mm). Engraved frontispiece. (Occasional light spotting and soiling.) 20th-century dark green morocco, lettered in gilt up the spine.
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST GENERAL TREATISE ON PHOTOGRAPHY. For the next two decades Hunt, a founding member of the Calotype Club and Photographic Society of Great Britain, was the leading writer on the subject. The frontispiece engraving shows an image in negative, and is among the earliest such illustrations. Gernsheim Incunabula 653.
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