[Rarebooks] FS: 1881Photography

[Charles Agvent]

MEREDITH, Harriet [EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. SKETCHES, LIFE THOUGHTS AND 
INCIDENTS. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1881. First Edition. Bound in 
full, blind-stamped publisher's morocco and illustrated with a 
carte-de-visite photograph of the author by P. Gutekunst tipped to the 
verso of the front free endpaper, likely as issued; 179 pages. The only 
copy of this book we were able to locate, at Brown University, makes no 
mention of a photograph. Includes at least two poems touching upon 
photography--"A Group of Cartes-de-Visite" and "Lines on a Photographic 
Group of Authors." Some rubbing to binding, but Near Fine, contents 
bright.         $250.00

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