An Elegy And Other Poems de Shepperley, William - 1914

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Wentworth Press. hardcover. New. 6x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Arthurs Press, London, no date (c.1929). viii + 100pp + 25 black and white plates + 5p ads. Paper covered boards with cloth spine. Covers scuffed and bumped with some paper loss to the corners. Outer pages and page edges little foxed and browned. Inner hinge beginning to split (2cms). 25x19cms.

London : Arthurs Press, [ca. 1928/29], 1928. First Edition. Hardback. Very good copy in a contemporary binding of title-blocked, leather-backed boards. Sun toning to spine and backing. Spine bands slightly dust-dulled, with some rubbing and light wear to the panel edges. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 100 pages; Physical description: 100 p., [14] leaves of plates, 25 illus., frontis. ; 26 cm. An uncommon early history of photography, with an emphasis on the technical processes and hardware and their development, with additional matter on the business and hobby of photography. There is also a chapter on the cinema and cinematic photography. Subjects: Photography -- History. Notes: advertisements before and after main text.

London: Published by the Bowyer Press...and sold by the author on his city stand in Lothbury, [1914]. 32pp. Original publisher's printed powder blue wrappers. Extremities rubbed, creased, and marked. Foxed. Presentation copy, inked ownership inscription to verso of title page: 'Very Sincerely, / William Shepperley / Jan. V. MCMXIV.' The first edition, in original unsophisticated state, of a verse tribute to controversial poet, and pedlar of literary forgeries, Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770). . First edition. Quarto.