A manual of photography
By: by Robert Hunt ... ; illustrated by numerous engravings
Contributors: Blackie, W. G. (Walter Graham), 1816-1906, printer; Epstean Collection of Books on Photography and Its Applications in the Graphic Arts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library); R. Griffin and Co
Edition: 4th ed., rev.
Series: Encyclopaedia metropolitana, 2nd division. Applied sciences -- 16
Publisher: Richard Griffin and Company, publishers to the University of Glasgow
Published: 1854
Place of publication: London and Glasgow
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
Subjects: Photography; History; Handbooks, manuals; Processing; Equipment and supplies
Notes: "Catalogue of photographic apparatus sold by John Joseph Griffin ... and by Richard Griffin and Company, Glasgow": pages 1-32 (fourth series).

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. I. History of discoveries in photography. Ch. 1. Early researches on the chemical action of the solar rays; title: CH. II. Heliography; title: the process of M. Niepce; title: Ch. III. Mr. H. Fox Talbot's photogenic drawings, calotype & c; title: CH. IV. Daguerreotype : the discovery of M. Daguerre; title: Ch. V. The photographic processes on paper of Sir John Herschel; title: Ch. VI. Miscellaneous process; title: Ch. VII. Photographs on glass plates and recent improvements; title: Ch. VIII. Portraiture by the daguerreotype; title: Ch. IX. General summary of the history of photography; title: Part II. Scientific investigations on photography. Ch. I. General remarks on the solar agency producing chemical change; title: Ch. II. Chemical changes on sensitive preparations; title: Ch. III. The theory of the daguerreotype; title: Ch. IV. On the photographic registration of philosophical instruments and the means of determining the variations of actinic power and for experiments on the chemical focus; title: Ch. V. Thermography; title: Ch. VI. On the possibility of producing photographs in ther natural colours; title: Ch. VII. On lenses for the photographic camera; title: Part III. Practice of photography. Ch. I. Selections of paper for photographic purposes; title: Ch. II. On the apparatus necessary for the first practice of photography on paper; title: Ch. III. On the modes of manipulation adopted in the preparation of sensitive papers; title: Ch. IV. On fixing the photographic pictures; title: Ch. V. The calotype as now practised, and its modifications; title: Ch. VI. The daguerreotype; title: Ch. VII. The collodion process; title: Ch. VIII. The use of albumen on glass plates; title: Ch. IX. On the production of positive photographs by the use of the salts of iodine; title: Ch. X. General remarks on the use of the camera obscura : the photographic pentagraph; title: Ch. XL. The stereoscope; title: CH. XII. Photographic engraving.