Lot 186
Early photography
Sammelband of three photography manuals by John Towler
Estimate: £300 - £500
Auction: 19 September 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
The Porcelain Picture; or, Full Instructions How to Make Photographs on Porcelain or Opal Glass. [Bound with:] Dry Plate Photography; or, the Tannin Process, made Simple and Practical for Operators and Amateurs. [And:] The Magic Photograph; with Full Directions and Formulas for Making It. New York: Joseph H. Ladd, 1865-65-66. 3 works in 1 volume, first editions, 8vo, [3] 6-47, [5] 14-97, [3] 6-10 pp., 20th-century blue cloth, ex Manchester Central Library with labels to endpapers, blind stamps to title-pages and text, and pencilled annotations to title-pages. Together with: Marcus Sparling, Theory and Practice of the Photographic Art, 1856 (first edition, 20th-century cloth, ex library); Alfred H. Wall, A Manual of Artistic Colouring, as applied to Photographs, 1861 (first edition, 20th-century cloth, ex library; C. Piazzi Smyth, A Poor Man’s Photography at the Great Pyramid in the Year 1865, 1870 (first edition, original cloth, ex library, tears to spine-ends); W. H. Thornthwaite, A Guide to Photography, 1854 (eighth edition, 20th-century cloth, ex library) (5)
Footnote
Library Hub traces two copies of The Porcelain Picture (BL and V&A, the latter in a sammelband, the BL copy described as having 26 pp. advertisements at rear), one copy of Dry Plate Photography (V&A), and one copy of The Magic Photograph (BL).
