Creator
Ernest Edwards
Title
The Heliotype Process. With Twenty-Eight Illustrations
Coverage
Boston
Publisher
James R. Osgood and Company
Date
1876
Subject
Plate 26: “Copied from samples of lace”.
Description
This promotional volume for Edwards’ photomechanical process was produced for Osgood’s display at the Centennial in Philadelphia and emphasized the heliotype’s value for the reproduction of art works and copying of documents. Edwards’ 8-page introduction notes that heliotypes could be produced rapidly, at moderate costs, and with no need for mounting. Pictured here is a subject chosen likewise three decades earlier, by William Henry Fox Talbot, to exhibit the literal faithfulness of the photograph.
Source
From the collection of Fred Pajerski