Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Fils, 1891. Second edition, revised and augmented. 12mo., vii, 72 pp., gelatin silver bromide frontispiece with printed tissue guard, figures and charts in text. Publisher's printed wrappers. Light occasional foxing. A very good copy. Item #54391

An expanded edition of the first manual for pinhole photography. The frontispiece is of the Esplanade des Invalides, a 3 minute exposure. Roosens and Salu No. 8594 does not indicate a frontispiece in this nor the shorter first edition of 1887. No copies of the 1887, first edtion are listed by WorldCat. Of the twelve copies of this expanded edition, only the copy at the Watson Library of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, contains the gelatin silver frontispiece. As with other titles from this period published by Gauthier-Villars et Fils, a remainder edition was often issued in decorative printed wrappers, which generally did not include any illustrations other than those printed in text.

Price: $600.00