(TALBOT, WILLIAM HENRY FOX.) The Pencil of Nature. Introduction and extensive text by Larry J. Schaaf. Lavish facsimile edition, with 6 volumes illustrated with 24 elegant reproductions of Talbot's photographs. 4tos, with illustrated wrappers and backed in red leather; volume one shows small areas of soiling. Also including an introductory volume, this edition's prospectus, and the original prospectus (?), all held in an embossed clamshell box with a gilt-lettered red leather title label. anniversary facsimile edition, one of 250 copies. New York: Hans P. Kraus, Jr., Inc., 1989