[printed letterhead:]
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.,
July 16th 1877
Dear Sir,
We are much obliged to you for all the trouble you are taking. The proof <1> of the copperplate copy of the Ordnance map is very good indeed. We wonder how it is that the process has not been more generally used.
We are, Sir
Yours truly
Sampson Low & Co
per R.B.M
H. Fox Talbot Esq
Notes:
1. See Doc. No: 01826. WHFT supplied a manuscript and original copies of two 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. [See also Doc. No: 00775].