The Silver Canvas: Daguerreotype Masterpieces, Bates Lowry, Near Fine HC & DJ

Lowry, Bates, and Isabel Barrett Lowry, London, England: Thames and Hudson, 1998, Near Fine 4to, 9” x 11 ¼”, 240 pp.

ISBN: 0-500-23762

Near Fine quarto red cloth over boards, gilt to front cover and spine, Near Fine cream paper wrap dust jacket with A Family Seated in the Garden on the front cover, red and brown title to front cover and spine, red symbol on the back, now protected in Mylar, 240 pp. 104 images with 30 full-color and 74 in black-and-white. From the J. Paul Getty Museum. A chronicle of the use of the daguerreotype by Louis Jacques Daguerre using first-hand reports and examples.