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London: Printed by Palmer and Clayton, 1846. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Quarto. [4], 338pp., 1 Talbotype (salt print) and 16 plates (two of which are folded). Contemporary dark green quarter morocco and cloth over boards, gilt spine. Ex-library with small date "1846" lettered by hand on spine, else a clean unmarked copy. Wear to the joints and leather corners, loss at head of spine (about an inch), bottom compartment of spine is rubbed, loss at bottom right corner of title page (not affecting the letterpress), else very good with modest toning to the endpapers and scattered foxing. The highly sought after eighth volume of this important journal, featuring William Henry Fox Talbot's original salt print with a letterpress caption pasted underneath: "The Palace of Justice at Rouen. From Nature, 1843" and a letterpress label pasted on the reverse: "Patent Talbotype or sun pictures". The volume also contains sixteen other exemplary plates. A scarce copy in the original boards, of "the first magazine… Read More