[Rarebooks] FS:1st Am. Photo-Illustrated

[Deborah Thornton Pendleton]

For Your Consideration. 1st American edition of:

[PHOTOGRAPHY] HOMES OF AMERICAN STATESMEN: WITH ANECDOTICAL, PERSONAL, 
AND DESCRIPTIVE SKETCHES. NY: G.P. Putnan & Co., 1854. Tall 8vo.in 
publisher's brown cloth decoratively stamped in blind with gilt illus. 
of Mt.Vernon on front cover and gilt decoration and lettering on spine; 
spine a little faded. Inner joint tender. Mounted photographic frontis 
with hand written caption "Hancock House - Boston, an original sun 
picture" underneath. Mount page is moderately foxed, but photo is 
relatively clean. Blind stamp under photo reads "Whipple's patent 
Crystalotype, Washington ... Boston." John Adams Whipple (1822-1891), a 
commercial photographer located in Boston, may have taken this 
photograph, or it may be the work of J. W. Black of Boston who worked 
with Whipple during this period and was a noted photographer of outdoor 
and architectural photography. Engraved title page with illus. of the 
birthplace of Henry Clay. Profusely illustrated with text illustrations 
from daguerreotypes and with numerous facsimile letters, some folding. 
Armorial bookplate on front endpaper, moderate foxing on title pages. 
Reputedly the first book published in America using photographic 
illustration. Truthful Lens notes that the photo-view of the house 
varies as some copies show different angles. Truthful Lens, #87; NYPL 
Spring 1977, #8b.  A very good copy, difficult to find in this 
condition.                                                $750


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