Talbot [William Henry Fox]

Talbot [William Henry Fox]

The Art-Union, Monthly journal of the Fine Arts…, volume 8, numerous plates, extra page 169-170, some spotting, original gilt-stamped cloth, worn with some splitting to spine, 4to, Palmer and Clayton, 1846; with the 1848 volume, featuring an embossed plate, in gilt-tooled calf (2)

*** "The first magazine in the world to be illustrated with a photograph." [Gernsheim 620]

This eighth volume of The Art-Union journal contains a mounted ‘talbotype’, also known as a ‘calotype’. The painstaking process required each image to be produced separately, every issue containing a unique example. This one depicts a ship’s battery, and has a tissue guard and printed label verso. Page 195 also features an article on “The Application of the Talbotype.”