BEDE, Cuthbert B.A. (pseud. BRADLEY, Edward).

Photographic Pleasures:

Name: Photographic Pleasures:
Brand: BEDE, Cuthbert B.A. (pseud. BRADLEY, Edward).
SKU: 113994
Price: 600.00 GBP
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popularly portrayed with pen and pencil.

Stock Code 113994

London, Thomas McLean, 1855

£600

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A highly amusing account of photography as a hobby in the middle of the nineteenth-century by a renowned comedic artist and writer of the day.

Edward Bradley (1827-1889) used the pen name Cuthbert Bede for his works including frequent contributions to Punch and other illustrated magazines. The illustrations are by his own hand and depict photographic processes and terms as visual puns.

First edition; 8vo (22 x 15 cm); 24 hand-coloured plates including frontispiece and illustrated title, internally clean; later calf-backed cloth boards, and endpapers, spine blind tooled with gilt morocco lettering piece, publisher's original gilt pictorial cloth and spine laid on paper and bound in rear, all edges gilt; 83, [2]pp.

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