The photographic colorists' guide
Subtitle: contains explanations of the methods by which photographs are colored in oil, water colors, and pastel; instructions as to the manner in which crayons and india ink should be used; hints about the retouching of negatives, and descriptions of all of the processes applied and now used to advantage for the improvement of prints
By: By John L. Gihon
Contributors: Wilson, Edward L. (Edward Livingston), 1838-1903, publisher; Dornan, Wm. J. (William J.), printer; Epstean Collection of Books on Photography and Its Applications in the Graphic Arts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: Published by Edward L. Wilson.
Published: 1878
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
Subjects: Photographs; Coloring; Perspective
Notes: "Rudimentary perspective": pages 77-88.

Advertisements of the publisher and of purveyors of photographic supplies: pages 89-96.

Collation: [1]⁴ 2-7⁶ 8² 9⁴ [$1,3 ( -9₃) signed; signing $3 as '$*']; 46 leaves, pages [i-vii] viii, [13] 14-96.

Issued in purple-brown cloth; title stamped in gold on front cover; priced at $1.50 in publisher's advertisement, page 94.

Some copies with: Newman, James. The principles and practice of harmonious colouring. 10th edition. London : James Newman, 1874. An unknown proportion of copies of The photographic colorist's guide were so issued; no reference is made to this in the text or in the publisher's advertisement, but the two works are bound together in the same stamped binding, with a wide enough spine, continuous with the covers, to accommodate the second work. Wilson (as partner in Benerman & Wilson) had published an American edition of the work in 1866 under title: Newman's manual of harmonious coloring ... edited by M. Carey Lea.

Rare Book copy: Issued with: The principles and practice of harmonious colouring. 10th edition. London : James Newman, 1874.