History and practice of photogenic drawing on the true principles of the daguerréotype
Subtitle: with the new method of dioramic painting : secrets purchased by the French government, and by their command published for the benefit of the arts and manufactures
By: by the inventor L.J.M. Daguerre ; translated from the original by J.S. Memes, LL.D.
Contributors: Gay-Lussac, Joseph Louis, 1778-1850.; Niépce, Nicéphore, 1765-1833.; Memes, J. S.; Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.; Arago, F. 1786-1853.
Publisher: Smith, Elder and Co.
Place of publication: London
Number of pages: 76
Subjects: Niépce, Isidore, -- 1795-1868; Diorama; Daguerreotype
Work titles: Historique et description des procédés du daguerréotype et du diorama.
Notes: Reprint of the first ed., with added subtitle: Secrets purchased by the French government ... The first ed. was pub. ca. 21 September 1839, and this reprint probably appeared within the next 4 weeks. Cf. Boni.

Translator's preface dated: Sept. 13th, 1839.

Includes act of June 15, 1839, granting pensions to Daguerre and J.I. Niépce; report relative to the pensions, presented to the Chambre des députés by Arago, July 3, 1839; report presented to the Chambre des députés by Gay-Lussac, July 30, 1839.

"Description of heliography, by J.N. Niepce": p. 34-43.

Boni, A. Photographic literature, p. 66, no. 10.

Gernsheim, H. Incunabula of British photographic literature, 641.