Descrizione

8vo (190x129 mm). X, 290 pp., [4] black and white in-text plates. With 37 in-text black and white figures and photographs. Editor's printed wrappers (wrappers marginally browned). Uniformly browned, but a good copy.
First edition of this rare and interesting essay on a wide range of photographic and photomechanical processes used for printing illustrations in the 19th-century.The work is part of the magazine Il Progresso Fotografico. Rodolfo Namias was a chemist and photographic optician. In 1894 he founded and edited Il Progresso Fotografico, a magazine published by the Editrice Progresso, based in Milan. This magazine was one of the first Italian publications on photographic technique and art. The magazine is still published today under the title Progresso Fotografico, Gold Series.
Italian Union Catalogue, MIL\0622352.