Contains descriptions and summaries of Talbot’s correspondence with Jean-Baptiste Biot, David Brewster, John Frederick William Herschel, Antoine Claudet, etc. „In 1934, Matilda Talbot donated the larger portion of Talbot's archives to the Science Museum, including a group of about 300 of the most important letters that Talbot had received from scientists such as Sir John Herschel and Sir David Brewster. This volume contains a brief synopsis of each letter in this collection (which is now housed at the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television in Bradford).“ (Publisher’s text).
Text engl. - Reprint s. The art of photogenic drawing, by Henry Fox Talbot F.R.S. Reprint of the paper read before The Royal Society on January 31, 1839. Published by The Royal Photographic Society to celebrate the 150th anniversary. - Nur Kurztitelaufnahme 11.2001.
incl. 23 mounted calotypes (in 2 sizes: 13 large 16.9x20.8cm, 10 small ca. 7.5x10.7cm)
Buch
Incl. no text except the list of plates, plus a pasted-in piece of paper reading „Notice to the reader: The plates of the present work are impressed by the agency of Light alone, without any aid whatever from the artist’s pencil. They are the sun pictures themselves, and not, as some persons have imagined, engravings in imitation.“
Text engl. - Includes the reprint from George Tissandier (ed. John Thomson): A history and Handbook of photography (...), London 1878 of Talbot’s last (untitled) essay on the history of his processes, photographic as well as photoreproductive.