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Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington,
English, Foreign, American, and Colonial Booksellers and Publishers.
Commissions executed in all matters connected with International Copyright, both at Home and Abroad.
THE PUBLISHER’S CIRCULAR,
AND GENERAL RECORD OF BRITISH AND FOREIGN LITERATURE,
Is published by SAMPSON LOW and CO. on the 1st and 15th of each
Month. It gives a transcript of the Title-page of every Work
published in Great Britain, and every Work of interest
published abroad. 8s. per annum,
including postage.
“Crown Buildings,”
188, Fleet Street,
London, E.C.,
May 30 1877
Fox Talbot Esq
Laycock Abbey
Chippenham
Sir,
We take the liberty of asking you if you would be good enough to send us a short account of the important part you took in the early life of photography for insertion in our new Edition of Tissandier’s ‘Photography’ <1> of which we enclose a few particulars. In the first Edition, which was little more than a translation from the french [sic], the part wh Englishmen took in the developt of the art was but scantily referred to & this we desire to put right as much as possible. Apologising for troubling you
We are, Sir Yours obediently
Sampson Low, Marston & Co
per RB.M
Notes:
1. WHFT supplied a manuscript and two original photoglyphic engravings for inclusion in John Thomson, editor, A History and Handbook of Photography, Translated from the French of Gaston Tissandier, second and revised edition, with an Appendix by the Late Henry Fox Talbot (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878). A page of the original manuscript is reproduced in Larry J Schaaf, Sun Pictures Catalogue Twelve: Talbot and Photogravure (New York: Hans P. Kraus, Jr, 1987), appendix. pp. 357–367.