The camera and the pencil, or, The heliographic art : its theory and practice ... together with its history in the United States and in Europe ...
The camera and the pencil is a 1864 Philadelphia treatise on photography and the daguerreotype, written by M. A. Root, a pioneering American daguerreotypist, for practitioners and general readers. Its pictures are fine engraved portraits of sitters in dark coats against plain grounds, plus simple line diagrams of a turntable and a copy stand, offering a designer restrained tonal portraiture and clear technical drawing.
