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...

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, being one of the first books to contain photographic images. Published in 1844, the book consists...