Remarks on some evidence recently communicated to the photographic society.
London.
Printed by Bradbury & Evans, 1863.
First edition.
8vo.
6pp, [2]. Sewn, as issued. Very short tears at head.
The first edition of a pamphlet by classicist and inventor Matthew Piers Watt Boulton (1820-1894) refuting the authenticity of purported eighteenth-century photographs. Boulton expanded his arguments in subsequent, greatly extended, pamphlets in 1864 and 1865.
The 'photographs' in question were supposedly unearthed in a long- sealed library in Soho, Birmingham, by a Mr. Price; a known fraudster. Boulton, through interesting discussion of photographic methods and the early experiments in the medium conducted by the Lunar Society, ultimately concludes that the paper and silver plate images could not possibly have been created as early as claimed, concluding that they must have been produced with a camera obscura.
£ 375.00
Antiquates Ref: 25225
The 'photographs' in question were supposedly unearthed in a long- sealed library in Soho, Birmingham, by a Mr. Price; a known fraudster. Boulton, through interesting discussion of photographic methods and the early experiments in the medium conducted by the Lunar Society, ultimately concludes that the paper and silver plate images could not possibly have been created as early as claimed, concluding that they must have been produced with a camera obscura.
