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A practical manual of photography : containing full and plain directions for the economical production of really good daguerreotype portraits, and every other variety of photographic pictures according to the latest improvements, also the injustice and validity of the patent considered, with suggestions for rendering a such patent a virtual dead letter, etc.

Hogg, Jabez, 1817-1899 · 1845 · London : E. Mackenzie · 4 pictures

A practical manual of photography by Jabez Hogg, published in London in 1845 by E. Mackenzie, giving plain instructions for making daguerreotype portraits and other photographic pictures for amateurs and practitioners. The pictures are small black-and-white wood engravings: a tree-lined riverside scene with a cottage and a figure in a decorative capital-letter header, a stylised urn with a ribbon, and a hand-lettered Introduction banner, offering a designer models of engraved vignettes, ornamental headers and foliage borders.

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