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Good in good dust jacket. Dust jacket edge wear. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 252 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Super clean book and dust jacket, unmarked inside.
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Like New. Excellent Dust Jacket. Size: 9x1x11; A Lovely Copy in like Dust Jacket-Like New! This oversized hardcover book has 252 pages including many photos and illustrations. The copyright page shows 1991 as the published date. We always ship in a sturdy box.
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Good. Oversize hardcover with DJ. The DJ is now protected in archival mylar. Very light tanning to the pages, light foxing to the top page edges. No apparent marks throughout the book. Boards and spine tight. Tracking available on most domestic orders.
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VG/VG, small label at base of dustjacket spine no other marks. Light tan cloth, light tan ill. DJ. xvi, 252 pp. Numerous bw ills. Comprehensive and fascinating study of this early photographic process. Contents as follows: Beginnings--Image making before photography--Toward points de Vue and the daguerreotype--The technological practice of daguerreotypy--Scientific interest in the daguerreotype during the Daguerreian Era--The daguerreotype as a scientific tool--Scientific interest in daguerreotypy after the Daguerreian Era--The daguerreotype image structure--Image formation--Image deterioration--Corrosion removal--Daguerreotype preservation and display--Daguerreotypy: a model for the interpretation of early technology and works of art.
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VG+ (wear to spine ends; line of rubbing/discolorization to upper edge of back board. dustjacket has scratches & scuffs) Grey cloth boards w/ black spine printing. 252 w/ bw illustrations. glossy grey & illustrated dustjacket w/ white printing. The authors "begin with a history of the process itself. Tracing the daguerreotype's origins and development, they proceed to discuss what researchers in this century have learned about the chemistry of the daguerreotype. They also address practical curatorial issues, describing how to restore and preserve the artifacts themselves. Richly illustrated, this survey of a fascinating and ubiquitous feature of mid-nineteenth-century life also provides a detailed technical study of the daguerreotype process." (back cover) An essential resource for historians and archivists alike.