Researches on Light in its Chemical Relations; embracing a consideration of all the photographic processes
London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1854. Very Good-. Item #26684
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854. Second Edition. Octavo; publisher's brown blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine; xx,396pp.; folding hand-colored engraved frontispiece. Cloth extremities rubbed with rather significant loss at corners, contemporary ownership ex libris and bookseller ticket to front pastedown, discreet contemporary ownership rubberstamp to title page, else a Good to Very Good, sound copy overall.
Popular technical treatise on the chemical properties of light and the history of photochemistry first published a decade earlier in 1844. This edition with a new preface by the author acknowledging "The constantly increasing interest in the beautiful Art of Photography" (p. [v]).
Price: $450.00