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volume in due time, if this work should be favoured with approbation and encouragement. THE HISTORY AND PRACTICE OF THE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY; OR THE PRODUCTION OF PICTURES THROUGH THE AGENCY OF LIGHT. CONTAINING ALL THE INSTRUCTIONS NECESSARY FOR THE COMPLETE PRACTICE OF THE DAGUERREAN AND PHOTOGENIC ART, BOTH ON METALIC, PLATES AND ON PAPER. By HENRY H. SNELLING. ILLUSTRATED WITH WOOD CUTS. New York: PUBLISHED BY G. P. PUTNAM, 155 Broadway, 1849. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1849, by H. H. Snelling, in the Clerk's office, of the District Court of the Southern District of New York. New York: PRINTED BY BUSTEED & McCOY, 163 Fulton Street. TO EDWARD ANTHONY, ESQ., AN ESTEEMED FRIEND. Whose gentlemanly deportment, liberal feelings, and strict integrity have secured him a large circle of friends, this work is Respectfully Dedicated By the AUTHOR. PREFACE. The object of this little work is to fill a void much complained of by Daguerreotypists--particularly young beginers. The author has waited a long time in hopes that some more able pen would be devoted to the subject, but the wants of the numerous, and constantly increasing, class, just mentioned, induces him to wait no longer. All the English works on the subject--particularly on the practical application, of Photogenic drawing--are deficient in many minute details,

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