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History of Photography

The Pencil of Nature (1844-46)

by William Henry Fox Talbot

Part II (cont.): PLATE IX. FAC-SIMILE OF AN OLD PRINTED PAGE

TAKEN from a black-letter volume in the Author's library, containing the statutes of Richard the Second, written in Norman French.

To the Antiquarian this application of the photographic art seems destined to be of great advantage.

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