Maker: John Pouncy (1808-1894)
Born: UK
Active: UK
Medium: photolithograph
Size: 7.9 in x 11 in
Location: UK
Object No. 2010.305
Shelf: A-56
Publication: Pouncy, J.: Dorsetshire Photographically Illustrated, Bland & Long, Fleet St, London, 1857
Other Collections: GEH
Provenance: Rostron & Edwards, Ludlow, UK
Notes: Athelhampton in Dorset. Published in 1857 by J.Pouncy of Dorchester, Photographic Institution. Together with a separate page of descriptive text. The first photolithographically-illustrated book to be published in Britain.‘As far as we know Pouncy’s rare book was not only the first but remained the only attempt in book form to reproduce photographic views from nature photolithography’ (Gernsheim). Published by subscription at the high price of £11s per part, the series was originally intended to extend to six parts, with 20 photolithographs in each, but only
four were actually produced.
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