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forming a complete encyclopædia of all the terms, receipts, processes, apparatus and materials in the art ... together with a list of articles of every description employed in its practice
Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding)-1854.
Publishers' advertisements-New York (State)-New York.
by H.H. Snelling author of the art of photography, and editor of the Photographic and fine art journal ; Beautifully illustrated.
"The dictionary which forms the first part of this work is compiled as carefully and copiously as it is possible ... The catalogue subjoined may be consulted with a certainty of obtaining every article enumerated precisely as described and at prices that cannot fail to satisfy ..."--Preface, p. ix.
The dictionary, printed in two columns, includes two engravings signed by Neville and one by Felter.
"A comprehensive and systematic catalogue of photographic apparatus and material, manufactures, imported and sold by E. Anthony, no. 308 Broadway, New York. With an introduction on the manufacture of daguerreotype apparatus and material. Illustrated. New York: H.H. Snelling, publisher, no. 486 Broadway. 1854," 56 p. at end, with separate title page, includes nine leaves of plates. One plate is signed "Forbes del." and another is illustrated by Chapin and engraved by Felter.
"Our printer seems to have paid much less attention to the correction of the proof than a work of this kind demanded, and consequently very many errors present themselves. ..."--Errata, p. [236].
Two pages at end of catalogue, printed on blue paper, include publisher's advertisements for Snelling's Photographic & fine art journal, and "new works on the photographic and daguerrean arts," and an advertisement for materials and chemistry manufactured by V. Prevost for sale by E. Anthony.
Comprehensive and systematic catalogue of photographic apparatus and materials