"Mr. Lincoln's Camera Man: Mathew B. Brady" by Roy Meredith, illustrated with hundreds of Mathew B. Brady's photographs, published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, First Edition with '1946' on the title page and copyright, Scribner's colophon on the copyright page. Some of the pictures published for the first time since 1865. Several photographs are from the original wet plates and negatives reproduced without retouching.

Hard boards, original bluish cloth with gold lettering on spine [some wear]; large format: 9.1/4" x 12.1/4"; former owner's vintage stamp on the front endpaper ["T.J. Shanahan, Neponsit, New York"]; xiii + 368 pages including Bibliography, printed on glossy paper, several hundreds of photographs including c.100 Civil War photos, page# xiii has a 2" long crease at the bottom, page# 65/66 has a 3" long old scotch repaired crease [the photos are not impacted]; slightely bumped bottom corners of the pages, very good condition.

"A photographer much in demand by statesmen and celebrities, Brady amassed a gallery of distinguished portraits. Most famous of these is the "Brady Lincoln," the photograph used for the engraving of the Lincoln head on the five-dollar bill. There are even photographs of Brady himself. But the heart of the book is the Civil War photographs: Battle Smoke, Union Wounded at Fredericksburg, Burnside's Bridge over the Antietam, Death of a Rebel Sniper, Remains of the Dead at Chancellorsville, Embalming Surgeon at Work, Atlanta Ga. Just After Its Capture, and others. Meredith's text tells the story behind many of the photographs and gives a lively account of Brady's life and times."

Mathew Brady, one of the foremost early American photographers and one of the earliest war photographers, was "official photographer" for the Union Army in the Civil War. With his assistants and his horse-drawn photographic wagon, Brady accompanied the troops and recorded the war firsthand. His war pictures are among the greatest war photographs ever taken, and constitute a prized pictorial record of American history.

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