AMERICAN HAND BOOK OF THE DAGUERREOTYPE, S.A. HUMPHREY
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By S. A. Humphrey. 1858, New York, 5th Edition. Hardbound red cloth. 214 pages, 5 pages of advertisements, some illustrations.
Samuel Dwight Humphrey published his first manual in 1849 and the first photographic magazine in the world, The Daguerreian Journal, in 1850, both of which were key influences in the spread of the process in the United States. His first manual was 81 pages, reprinted again in 1849, with a third edition in 1853. This fifth edition is considerably enlarged and improved. The book includes a printed dedication: "To J. Gurney, whose professional skill, scientific accuracy, and energetic perseverance, have won for him universal esteem, this work is most respectfully inscribed."
PROVENANCE. The book was at one time owned by Hector Maclean (first inner page is stamped "HECTOR MACLEAN, Cheam Road, SUTTON"). Maclean was an acclaimed pictorial photographer and photographic writer in Britain. He founded the Croydon Camera Club in 1890 – at a time when the town was a manufacturing center for films, plates and chemicals to cater to the fast-growing interest in photography.
There's also an inserted piece of paper that says "Library of Willard D. Morgan." Morgan was a photographer and writer who served as the first Director of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The consignor's father did some work for Mr. Morgan.
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