HOLDEN, Robert

Photography in Colonial Australia. The Mechanical Eye and the Illustrated Book

Sydney, Hordern House, 1988.

Quarto, viii, 172 pages with 56 plates.

Cloth with a paper title-label on the upper board; a fine copy.

'An Historical Survey' (38 pages); 'Photographic Genres' (34 pages); and a detailed (but not comprehensive) bibliography of 130 photographically illustrated books (86 pages). A fascinating and little-known branch of book illustration; limited to 1000 copies.

Item #29201

Price (AUD): $60.00
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