(PHOTOGRAPHY) John Towler editor The American Photographic A

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(PHOTOGRAPHY.) John Towler, editor. The American Photographic Almanac for 1864. [15], 22-144, [18] pages including 8 ad leaves. 12mo, publisher's gilt cloth, moderate wear at extremities; hinge split after page 76, a few early pencil notes; later bookplate of a Cleveland engraving company. New York, 1864

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The first of an annual almanac which was issued from 1864 to 1867 by the editor of "Humphrey's Journal of Photography and the Allied Arts and Sciences." It begins with a humorous introduction, explaining that "the publication of a new work is like throwing a chicken over the fence into your neighbor's garden." Almost a hundred pages are devoted to formulas and instructions for various photographic processes. The volume concludes with a listing of the world's photographic societies, and of works published on photography over the past year. This copy has some interesting annotations. The original owner has tallied up the photographic societies and book authors, and written "107 copies to be presented of the Camera & the Pencil." "The Camera and the Pencil: or, The Heliographic Art, Its Theory and Practice" was a 1864 book by Marcus A. Root; this almanac may well have been Root's personal copy. None traced at auction since a Swann photographica sale, 23 May 1974, lot 15.