Sun Pictures in Scotland

Sun Pictures in Scotland

Bound volume

William Henry Fox Talbot

Maker
English, 1800–1877

Sun Pictures in Scotland

1845
Bound volume with salted paper prints
Overall (closed): 12 1/2 × 9 3/4 × 9/16 in. (31.8 × 24.7 × 1.5 cm)
Gift of Mrs. Alden Scott Boyer, ex-collection Alden Scott Boyer
1974.0044.0001-0018
Inscriptions Debossed in gold on cover, C: SUN PICTURES \ IN \ SCOTLAND.
Printed on slip attached to flyleaf: Notice to the Reader. \ The plates of the present work are impressed by the \ agency of Light alone, without any aid whatever from \ the artist's pencil. They are the sun-pictures themselves, \ and not, as some persons have imagined, engravings \ in imitation.
Printed in black on title page, OA: Sun Pictures in Scotland, \ BY \ H. FOX TALBOT, Esq., F.R.S. \ &c. &c. &c. \ JUVAT IRE JUGIS QUA NULLA PRIORUM \ CASTALIAM MOLLI DEVERTITUR ORBITA CLIVO. \ LONDON. \ 1845.
Inscribed in pencil on endsheet verso, TLC: R7796/2
Inscribed in pencil inside back cover, TRC: Hamiel + Barker [?] \ 11/1948 \ $11 OΣ OΣ ["11" circled] \ Boyer
Inscribed in pencil inside back cover, BRC: 278
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