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Description: | This photograph of the town of Sturminster is taken from the ‘Abbot’s Illustrated Counties’ volume for Dorset: ‘Dorsetshire, its history, antiquities, places of interest, etc... a complete concise and exhaustive story of Dorset from the earliest times to the present day...’
As its publisher boasts, the volume is “profusely illustrated with one hundred and twenty-five specially prepared photographic process views”. Photography was still something of a novelty – and a selling point - in printed books during the second half of the 19th century. New developments in photographic printing processes were to revolutionise the appearance of travel guides. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Publisher: | The Guide Printing & Publishing Co | Rights holder: | British Library | Subjects: | Photographs Photography | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | The Guide Printing & Publishing Co | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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