The little work now presented to the Public is the first attempt to publish a series of plates or pictures wholly executed by the new art of Photogenic Drawing, without any aid whatever from the artist's...

William Henry Fox Talbot's 'The Pencil of Nature' is a groundbreaking work in the history of photography, as it is considered the first commercially published book illustrated with photographs. The book...

William Henry Fox Talbot's 'The Pencil of Nature' is a groundbreaking work in the history of photography, being one of the first books to contain photographic images. Published in 1844, the book consists...