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Photography comes to America: Sir David Brewster’s review of the earliest literature
BREWSTER, SIR DAVID. “Photogenic drawing, or drawing by the agency of light” (pp. 159-176) in Edinburgh Review, No. CLIV for January 1843
New York: Mason, 1843
Original wrappers. Minor dampstain at end, foxed. Fine.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. This is a major paper on the founding publications on photography by Daguerre and Talbot (as well as those of Netto and Moser) and the history of the new art photography.
Sir David Brewster was a pioneer of photography. He invented the lenticular stereoscope, the kaleidoscope, the binocular camera, and other instruments. The work, published anonymously, is “an ambitious, wide-ranging account of the development of photography” to 1843 (Smith, Disciples of Light).
A rare survival in original wrappers.
$2,200