A guide to photography
Subtitle: containing a concise history of the science and its connection with optics, together with simple and practical details for the production of pictures by the chemical action of light upon prepared surfaces of paper, glass, and silvered plates : including photogenic drawing, talbotype or calotype, daguerreotype, and the improved processes for obtaining views, portraits, etc., with prepared collodion and albumen
By: by W.H. Thornthwaite
Edition: 3rd ed.
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Photography; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Photography
Publisher: Horne, Thornthwaite, & Wood
Published: 1851
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 73
Subjects: Photography
Other titles: On photography & daguerreotype
Notes: Includes index.

Publisher's advertising: 19 p., 4th count; [5] p., 5th count.

Reproduction of the original from the Museum of Science and Industry (Manchester, United Kingdom).