Photographic pleasures : popularly portrayed with pen & pencil / by Cuthbert Bede.
Photographic Pleasures, a humorous 1855 London book of photography anecdotes by Cuthbert Bede, published by Day & Son for general readers curious about the new camera. Its pen-and-pencil wood engravings are caricatures of early photographers: a bulky camera on a tripod, a startled group of onlookers in a village, and a grid of small vignettes naming each photographic process. A designer could take from them the crowded, comic energy of Victorian satirical line work and the use of labelled vignette panels to organise a set of related items.
