LE PASSÉ, LE PRESENT ET L'AVENIR DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE.; MANUEL PRATIQUE DE PHOTOGRAPHIE.
Paris: E. Dentu, Libraire-Éditeur, 1861. First edition. 8vo., 47 pp. Illustrated wrappers. Light soiling to the wrappers, with scattered light foxing in the text. A very good copy. Menut Alexander Alophe, 1812 - 1883, studied under Paul Delaroche and Camille Roqueplan. As Pierre-Lin Renié wrote, "Alophe epitomizes the mediocre painter..... More