History of Photography. The Camera by Edward F. Dolan, Jr.

Julian Messner, New York, 1965.  Red cloth hardcover with protected dust jacket. Ex-library, tape stains from no longer present tape used to affix old dust jacket protector,  missing last page of index, yellow background on spine of dust jacket faded.  Title misleading, really a history of photography. Discusses camera obscura, daguerreotype, William Henry Fox Talbot’s paper process, collodion wet plate era, Mathew Brady, George Eastman and the Kodak, Muybridge, Marey and the conquest of motion, evolution of camera technology, etc. Illustrated with photographs and drawings.  190 pages present.