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Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington,
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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.
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London, E.C.,
Sep 1 1877
H. Fox Talbot Esq
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
Dear Sir,
We regret the delay there has been in sending you proof, <1> we have written to the printers several times & this morning they send [sic] it in. We send you your M.S. with two proofs, one of which kindly correct and return to us marked “for press” (unless you wish to see a ‘revise’)
We shall be obliged if you will send us the rest of the M.S. or as much as may be ready
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per R.B.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.