The Evolution of Photography. With a chronological record of discoveries, inventions, etc., contributions to photographic literature, and personal reminiscences extending over forty years

London: Piper & Carter, 1890. Very Good-. London: Piper & Carter, 1890. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's blue blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine, floral endpapers; viii,312,[8](ads)pp.; photo-illustrated title page and three leaves of plates, pictorial advertisements bound in rear. Cloth rather scuffed at extremities, three-inch split to mid-rear joint, light soil, 20th century ownership ownership signatures and rubberstamps to front free endpaper and frontispiece verso, else a Good to Very Good, internally clean and sound copy.

Uncommon history of photography divided by era: "The Dark Ages," "Collodion," "Gelatine," etc.