L.P. Clerc's Photography, Theory and Practice: Fundamentals: Light. Image. Optics.

Volume 1 in the series. This volume by L. A. Mannheim. AMPHOTO, 1970. The U.S. edition prepared by Focal Press in the UK. Hardcover in gray cloth, like new with near fine protected dust jacket. Originally published in one volume in 1926 by Louis Philippe Clerc as La Technique Photographique, it was first issued in an English edition in 1930 and reprinted several times. This thorough update and complete revision of his seminal work on photochemistry and related topics required multiple authors and volumes. Here Mannheim provides details in chapters on light and color, quantity of light - photometric units, limits of luminance in photographic subjects, the ideal picture based on scientific criteria, perspective - monocular and binocular vision, principles of color photography, camera obscura and pinhole photography, general properties of optical systems - aberrations, focal length of lenses, diaphragm and related aperture - effect on perspective and intensity, lens types, lens performance, lens accessories, et al.  Illustrated with numerous diagrams, charts, etc. This book is quite uncommon in hardcover with dust jacket, even as ex-library copies lacking the dust jacket. Not issued with ISBN number. Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 73-106378.