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Very Good. Hardcover. 4to. The Studio. 1908. Unumbered pages, 10 pgs, 113 plates with 18 tipped in color plates. Bound in green cloth boards ruled in blue with a pastedown present to the front board. Original wrappers missing and Zeiss ads missing. Page 113 lightly damaged as a piece of the plate has become affixed to one of the rear endpapers. Light foxing present to the rear endpaper. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. Features a selection of autochromes reproduced in color by: J. Craig Annan, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Frank Eugene, Heinrich Kühn, Baron Adolph De Meyer, David Octavius Hill, Gertrude Käsebier, Clarence White. The introduction of colour into photography "immediately and profoundly changes the character of the issues involved". These are issues of aesthetics: can the colour photographer lay any claim to "serious artistic regard". So The Studio has made a big step: "never before has it been possible to arraign so representative a series. The unique image. Has never hitherto been reproduced with so much sensitive and meticulous loyalty". E-104; 4to 11"-13" tall; 10 pages.
