Cookham to Whitchurch. Illustrated by photographs.
The Thames Cookham to Whitchurch. Illustrated by photographs.
Marion, 1866.
First edition. Square 8vo. Green cloth with titles embossed in gilt on upper covers. Bevelled edges, volume one with gilt decoration to covers, all edges gilt. Illustrated with tipped in original stereoscopic collodion photographs of scenes along the river. A very good copy.
William Russell Sedgfield (1826-1902) was one of the earliest applicants for a license to use William Henry Fox Talbot's calotype process, but is better known for his later albumen work of British architecture, topography, and genre subjects, done in print, stereograph, and carte-de-visite formats. This is the first of three books containing probably the earliest photographic record of the Thames. The gutta-percha binding means that they are prone to fall apart and thus few complete copies have survived.
Cohen p.96
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