The romance of modern photography : its discovery & its achievements / by Charles R. Gibson … ; with sixty-three illustrations.
Charles Robert Gibson (1870-1931)
Category
Books
Date
1908
Materials
Place of origin
Philadelphia
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3257482
Summary
Bibliographic description
344, [8] p., [34] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 8vo. Pencil price and codes on front pastedown: "1.50 / net / 4X= / 10/7". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (shield on a beaded oval): 'Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown: 'Brentano's / Booksellers & stationers, / New York.' Binding: Early twentieth-century full publisher's dark blue cloth; single white fillet to form an outer border on upper board; gilt and red stamped centrepiece on upper board (within a single white fillet border): men developing a very large photograph; red and white decoration and lettering on upper board; gilt stamped camera, gilt lettering and red and white stamped birds on nest with eggs on spine.
Makers and roles
Charles Robert Gibson (1870-1931), author