PLAIN DIRECTIONS FOR OBTAINING PHOTOGRAPHIC PICTURES BY THE CALOTYPE AND ENERGIATYPE, ALSO, UPON ALBUMENIZED PAPER ANd GLASS, BY COLLODION AND ALBUMEN, ETC, ETC. INCLUDING A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON PHOTOGRAPHY, WITH A SUPPLEMENT, CONTAINING THE HELIOCHROME PROCESS. ALSO, PRACTICAL HINTS ON THE DAGUERREOTYPE; BEING SIMPLE DIRECTIONS FOR OBTAINING PORTRAITS, VIEWS, COPIES OF ENGRAVINGS, DRAWINGS, SKETCHES OF MACHINERY, ETC. BY THE DAGUERREOTYPE PROCESS; INCLUDING THE LATEST IMPROVEMENTS IN FIXING, COLOURING, AND ENGRAVING THE PICTURES; WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THE APPARATUS. ILLUSTRATED WITH ENGRAVINGS.
Philadelphia: A. Hart, Late Carey and Hart, 1853. First American edition. 12mo., [15]-224 pp., 47 wood engravings in text, plus 24 page list of publications. Ex-libary, with stamping on the title page, and occionally in text. The front free fly is lacking a portion of the lower half, and there is a bookplate affixed to the front pastedown, with evidence of a library pocket removed from the rear pastedown. The text is very good. Bound in the publisher's textured red cloth titled on the front board and spine in gilt lettering. The crown is chipped; otherwise, the binding is fine and bright. In all, a very good or better copy. Item #54834
This is the first American edition that combines the two writings of Croucher, published in Britain in 1845, and the English translation of Le Gray, 1850, and reprints Frederick Scott Archer's article on collodion from "THE CHEMIST". It contains detailed information on the daguerreotype, and most of the early photographic paper processes.
WorldCat locates copies at: Cornell University, New York Historical Society, Getty Research Institute, Providence Athenaeum, Oberlin College, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, National Gallery of Canada, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Northubria University, University of California, Santa Barbara. Roosens, and and Salu No. 6363.
Price: $450.00