LIVING PICTURES:THEIR HISTORY, PHOTO-PRODUCTION AND PRACTICAL WORKING. With A Digest of British Patents and Annotated Bibliography. By HENRY V. HOPWOOD, "Our swift scene flies, in motion of no less celerity than that of thought."-K. Henry V., Act iii., lines 1-3. published by THE OPTICIAN & PHOTOGRAPHIC TRADES REVIEW, 123-5, FLEET STREET, LONDON, E.C. 1899. original blue fabric binding, splits to spine corners bumped, complete with a typed letter that reads: LIVING PICTURES by HENRY V. HOPWOOD. This book was published by The Optician & Photographic Trades Review at 123-5, Fleet Street London, E.C., in the year 1899. This copy was purchased by T.E.C.Wheeler and carries his signature on the fly-leaf. This was during the years when he was working with The J.A.Prestwich Manufacturing Company, The Warwick Trading Company, and also Kearton, Barley & Co - all well-known and very early manufacturers of Motion Picture equipment. There are only two copies of Living Pictures still known to exist - this one, and another in the Kodak Libraries at Harrow. The book is extremely important for the following reasons:- (1) It contains proof of the date when the Newman& Guardia camera was built - see pages 179, 180 & 181. (2) It contains a complete list of all the early basic British Patents in Cinematography from 1851 up to 1898 (pp 235 - 253) (3) It contains an annotated bibliography of all important developments in cinematography from 1825 up to 1898 (pp 254 - 265) It is impossible to say how valuable this work is to any organisation seriously concerned with the history of cinematography it would be absolutely priceless.