THE PHOTOGRAPH AND AMBROTYPE MANUAL: A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE ART OF TAKING POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE PHOTOGRAPHS ON PAPER AND GLASS, COMMONLY KNOWN AS PHOTOGRAPHY, IN ALL ITS BRANCHES; CONTAINING ALL THE VARIOUS RECIPES PRACTICED BY THE MOST SUCCESSFUL OPERATORS IN THE UNITED STATES.
New York: Wiley & Halsted; London: Trübner & Co., 1858. Fifth edition. 8vo., 242 pp., [3] adverts. Original cloth. Rebacked with the original gilt-titled spine laid-down; rubbed at the fore edge; previous owners' names on endpapers in pencil; else very good. Item #26192
Contains a thorough discussion of the ambrotype process including apparatus, coloring and photographing different types of subjects; glass negatives and printing on a variety of papers. Burgess is credited with making the ambrotype process popular in America. His description of this process is the most complete. This edition is greatly expanded from 1856 edition. Roosens and Salu No. 241B.
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