Plain directions for obtaining photographic pictures
Subtitle: by the calotype and energiatype, also, upon albumenized paper and glass, by collodion and albumen, etc., etc. ; including a practical treatise on photography, with a supplement, containing the heliochrome process ; also, practical hints on the daguerreotype, being simple directions for obtaining portraits, views, copies of engravings, drawings, sketches of machinery, etc., by the daguerreotype process, including the latest improvements in fixing, colouring, and engraving the pictures, with a description of the apparatus ; illustrated with engravings
Contributors: Le Gray, Gustave, 1820-1884; Epstean Collection of Books on Photography and Its Applications in the Graphic Arts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: H.C. Baird
Published: 1860
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Photography; Handbooks, manuals; Printing processes; Processing; Collodion process; Daguerreotype; Albumen
Notes: Half-title: Daguerreotypist and photographer's companion.

Each section includes separate t.p.; parts I and III by J.H. Croucher; part II by Gustave Le Gray.

Part II consists of a translation of the "essential portions" of Le Gray's Nouveau traité théorique et pratique de photographie, 1851, and of several brochures by "distinguished French operators" cf. p.86.

Publisher's advertisements: 24 p. at end.