Lot Essay
25 photographs are identified in the contents as having been printed by the Woodbury Company, the remainder by the Autotype Company.
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Through Cyprus with the Camera, in the Autumn of 1878, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1879
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JOHN THOMSON
Through Cyprus with the Camera, in the Autumn of 1878, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1879
2 volumes. With 60 "permanent" photographs, Woodburytype and carbon prints, varying sizes from 4½ x 3¾ in. (11.4 x 9.5 cm.) to 4½ x 6¾ in. (11.4 x 17.2 cm.) or the reverse. Each volume with contents and title page, dark brown cloth, gilt, g.e., titled in gilt on front cover and spine, 4°. (2)
Through Cyprus with the Camera, in the Autumn of 1878, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1879
2 volumes. With 60 "permanent" photographs, Woodburytype and carbon prints, varying sizes from 4½ x 3¾ in. (11.4 x 9.5 cm.) to 4½ x 6¾ in. (11.4 x 17.2 cm.) or the reverse. Each volume with contents and title page, dark brown cloth, gilt, g.e., titled in gilt on front cover and spine, 4°. (2)
Literature
See: White, John Thomson Life and Photographs, pl. 155-161.
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