Title: [A survey of the beginnings and early development of photography in Great Britain, 1839-1856, with notices of its earliest literature]
Description: A review with commentary of 7 works: 1. History and practice of photogenic drawing, on the true principles of the daguerreotype, with the new method of dioramic painting ... / L.J.M. Daguerre (London, 1839) -- 2. A practical manual of photography, containing a concise history of the science and its connexion with optics ... / by a practical photographer (London) -- 3. On the practice of the calotype process of photography / by George S. Cundell (Philosophical magazine, vol. xxiv, no. 160, May 1844) -- 4. Researches on the theory of the principal phenomena of photography in the daguerreotype process / by A. Claudet (Read before the British Association of Birmingham, Sept. 14, 1849) -- 5. Researches on light : an examination of all the phenomena connected with the chemical and molecular changes produced by the influence of the solar rays ... / by Robert Hunt (London, 1844) -- 6. Progress of photography - collodion - the stereoscope : a lecture / by Joseph Ellis (Read at the Literary and Scientific Institution of Brighton, Nov. 13, 1855) -- 7. The journal of the Photographic Society.
Subjects: Photography, History