An Early Victorian Album: The Photographic Masterpieces (1843-1847) of David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson
An Early Victorian Album: The Photographic Masterpieces (1843-1847) of David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson is a 363-page cloth-bound hardcover, a Borzoi Book, published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York. First published in 1974, this copy published in 1976. The dust jacket has a tear across the bottom portion of the spine and general shelf rubbing. The book has minor bumping to the upper spine. Inside, the pages are crisp and clean. Book Summary One of the supreme treasures of photography is here assembled first time in a book. This early Victorian album is the work of two pioneer Scottish photographers, David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, who in the year 1848, scarcely a decade after the birth of the camera, selected what they considered to be their finest pictures for presentation to the British Royal Academy. These photographs subsequently disappeared--were lost for more than a century--and, were rediscovered in 1967. The two men came by different routes to photography.