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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.,
Augst 10th 1877
H. Fox Talbot Esq
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
Dear Sir,
We must apologise for again writing to you but find we are pressed for the 2nd Edition of Tissandier <1> and we should feel much obliged if you could let us have the account for the Appendix some day next week we will then at once send you a proof of it for correction. Perhaps you would also kindly ask your engraver to let us have the impressions from your plates as soon as he conveniently can. Of course we do not wish to inconvenience you in any way & we will keep the book standing longer than next week for your matter if necessary.
We are, Sir Yours faithfully
Sampson Low, Marston & Co
per R.B.Marston
Notes:
1. WHFT supplied original photoglyphic engravings of his image, ‘View in Java’, along with another photoglphic engraving 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). The view, half of a stereo, was probably taken by Walter B. Woodbury or his partner James Page. A sheet 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.