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Aperture Foundation, Incorporated, 2001. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
Coley Avenue, Reading, ca. 1845 by TALBOT, William Henry Fox - 1845
by TALBOT, William Henry Fox
Coley Avenue, Reading, ca. 1845
by TALBOT, William Henry Fox
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1845. 1st Edition. No Binding. Good. 1st Edition. No Binding. Oblong folio. 160 x 175 mm. Salt print from calotype negative, mounted on card, verso with unrelated pencil note in Calvert Jones' hand [Schaaf no. 326]. Condition: some fading to image as usual.
Henry Fox Talbot set up a photographic studio in Reading in 1844 (the 'Reading Establishment'), and many of the images for The Pencil of Nature - the first book to be illustrated with photographic prints - were printed there. Provenance: Sotheby's, 8 May 1992, lot 138; Bonhams, San Francisco, 7 November 2007, lot 628.
Reference: Gail Buckland, Fox Talbot and the Invention of Photography, London 1980, p. 184; Larry Schaaf, William Henry Fox Talbot, In Focus: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Getty Publications, 2002.
Henry Fox Talbot set up a photographic studio in Reading in 1844 (the 'Reading Establishment'), and many of the images for The Pencil of Nature - the first book to be illustrated with photographic prints - were printed there. Provenance: Sotheby's, 8 May 1992, lot 138; Bonhams, San Francisco, 7 November 2007, lot 628.
Reference: Gail Buckland, Fox Talbot and the Invention of Photography, London 1980, p. 184; Larry Schaaf, William Henry Fox Talbot, In Focus: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Getty Publications, 2002.
- Bookseller Independent bookstores (DE)
- Format/Binding No Binding
- Book Condition Used - Good
- Quantity Available 1
- Edition 1st Edition
- Date Published 1845
- Keywords Photography, salt prints