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    By Helmut Gernsheim; Alison Gernsheim
    London   Oxford University Press
    11" by 8" xxviii, [1], 395, 359pp
    An informative and important reference work on the history of photography. Gernsheim's work looks at the use of the camera obscura in the 11th century until 1914.
    By Helmut Gernsheim; Alison Gernsheim

    1955 The History of Photography

    London   Oxford University Press
    11" by 8" xxviii, [1], 395, 359pp
    An informative and important reference work on the history of photography. Gernsheim's work looks at the use of the camera obscura in the 11th century until 1914.
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    Description

    First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

    The first edition of this work. 

    Written by an authority on this subject, Helmut Erich Gernsheim. He was a collector and photographer himself whose own collection was over 33,000 photographs. 

    With chapters on Niepce, Fox Talbot, Daguerreotypes, the popularization of photography, 'high art' photography and photomechanical and the printed page.

    Condition

    In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelfwear to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with just the odd spot.

    Very Good Indeed

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