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William Henry Fox Talbot

Some Account of the Art of Photogenic Drawing, or the Process by which Natural Objects May Be Made to Delineate Themselves without the Aid of the Artist's Pencil

Read before the Royal Society, January 31, 1839
Thirteen pages of text on paper (approximately 6500 words) without illustrations, published by R. & J.E. Taylor, London, 1839
23.2 × 30 cm (9.1 × 11.8 in)

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