Coulthurst, S.L.

How to Make Lantern Slides

London: Dawbarn & Ward.

Hardcover. Very good. Undated, but c. 1898. 5" x 7", pp 88, [22] ads; illustrated. Original cloth, lightly soiled. Early ownership signature on two pages, else clean and sound. Described in one contemporary photography periodical as "a standard work on the subject," and praised in another for its full treatment of "negatives and plates, methods of projecting slides, exposure of the lantern plate, development of slides and so on to the finishing process of masking and binding; some recipes, and a long list of developing formulae are also included." Includes many ads for photography publications, as well as cameras and other apparatus.