History of Photography. Pioneers of Photography. An Album of Pictures and Words Compiled by Aaron Scharf.

NY: Abrams, 1976.  Excerpts from William Henry Fox Talbot, Pencil of Nature; correspondence of Daguerre, Niepce, Hippolyte Bayard, David Octavius Hill (of Hill and Adamson); Julia Margaret Cameron's autobiographical "Annals of My Glass House"; articles from the British Journal of Photography, 1860s by Samuel Bourne concerning his trips to the Himalayas; Nadar's "When I Was a Photographer" translated into English; articles by Oliver Wendell Holmes on Civil War photography and other topics; writings of Edweard Muybridge concerning animal locomotion; Charles Holme, "Art in Photography" from Studio magazine, 1905; and writings by Alfred Stiegliz and Edward Steichen on the autochrome color process, 1907-1908. Fine, cloth, with very good or better dust jacket with minor scratches and indentations.  An important reference, numerous illustrations.