Scenes in a Library: Reading the Photograph in the Book, 1843-1875 (October Books)

This impressively illustrated text explores the moment in time when photographs on paper were first inserted into the book. Armstrong's scholarship uncovers the now obscur relationship as it developed in William Henry Fox Talbot's Pencil of Nature, Anna Atkins's Photographs of British Algae, Francis Frith's Egypt and Palestine Photographed and Observed, and Julia Margaret Cameron's Illustrations to Alfred Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King.