The Photograph and Ambrotype Manual: A Practical Treatise

by Nathan G. Burgess

Fifth edition.  New York:  Wiley & Halsted, 1959; London: Truebner & Co., 1859.

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD- condition.

• Brown cloth covers show commensurate wear and dirt, with blind tooled frame and decorative border. 
• Boards show some wear, with stains especially on back cover and spine.  Corners are bumped and frayed, with exposed board.
• Spine is somewhat cocked, has gilt text and is faded, with bumped ends.
• Binding is shaken, with tendency to fall open between Part I and Part II.  Please see photographs for details of condition.   
• Ex libris book from library of Dr. Raymonde A Albray, features a crossword style bookplate on front pastedown.
• Endpapers are toned, have writing on back feps.  
• Advertisements for photographic chemicals follow book text, on feps.  
• Interior is age-toned, with scattered foxing as at page 192 and stain at page 170 and following.  Please see photographs for details of condition.  
• Inside pages show marginal notation at page 141.  Please see photographs. 
• Text block edges are darkened.  
• PS2022.0629

242 pages. 4.5 x 7 inches.

A scarce copy of this work by Burgess, written and published twenty years after the invention of the photographic technique by Daguerre.  Intended as a practical manual, the subtitle reads in full:  "A practical treatise on the art of taking positive and negative photographs on paper and glass, commonly known as photography in all its branches; containing all the various recipes practiced by the most successful operators in the United States."   The author, Nathan G. Burgess was both a "practical photographer" and a manufacturer of chemicals for the art.  

PROVENANCE: Bookplate on front pastedown from the library Dr. Raymonde A. Albray (d. 1968), dental surgeon from Maplewood, New Jersey.  Also a 32nd degree Mason, an angler, moviemaker, gardener, traveler, and camera fan, according to the crossword-styled bookplate.

Published both in New York and London.  Fifth Edition.  

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