Author: BLANC Charles - BISSON Frères (Photographers) :
Title: L'Oeuvre de Rembrandt reproduit par la Photographie, décrit et commenté par M.Charles Blanc, ancien directeur des Beaux-Arts.
Description: Paris, Gide et J.Baudry, Libraires-Editeurs, 1853. in-folio, 43 x 31 cm, 6 nn pp (title) + 24 pp + 100 mounted albumen prints + ca. 200 nn pp (explanatory notes) + 4 nn pp (table). Full olive green morocco, both covers with gilt filets and blindtooling, gilt title on front cover, a.e.g., apart from some minor scratches and a few usual spots inside an extremely attractive copy. Roosens/Salu; History of Photography; a bibliography of books; No. 905. E.A.McCauley; Commercial Photography in Paris pp.272. A very fine copy of an important book in the history of photography. This is the first time (1853) a book is published with the photographs reproduced from albumen-on-glass negatives. The photographers were Bisson & Frères and the photographs were printed by Lemercier. The commentary was written by Charles Blanc, former French minister of Fine Arts. .

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