The Barnet Book of Photography 1905 8th Edition Illustrated Photographic
 
Title & Bibliographic Details
 
Title: The Barnet Book of Photography
Edition: Eighth Edition, revised, rewritten, and enlarged
Publisher: Elliott & Sons, Barnet, Herts
Date: 1905
Printer: Spottiswoode & Co. Ltd., London
 
An important Edwardian photographic manual described by the publishers as “an entirely new work” for this extensively rewritten eighth edition.
 
The book includes a photographic frontispiece with its original tissue guard together with numerous photographic plates, diagrams, and illustrations throughout.
 
Historical & Bibliographic Context
 
First published in 1898, The Barnet Book of Photography became a widely respected practical guide for photographers during a period of rapid photographic development.
 
Published by Elliott & Sons, the work covers subjects including:
film photography 
hand cameras 
bromide printing 
orthochromatic photography 
lantern slides 
pictorial photography 
 
Contributors include A. Horsley Hinton, an important figure in British pictorial photography.
 
Binding & Exterior Description
 
Bound in red cloth with black lettering and decorative detailing to the front board and spine, together with the publisher’s trademark and original printed price of 1/6 to the rear board.
 
The binding remains intact and attractive overall with expected age-related wear including:
fading to the cloth, particularly the spine 
small marks and stains 
small splits near the head and tail of the spine 
rubbing to the cloth and lettering 
soft bumping to the corners 
Overall, structurally sound.
 
Interior Condition
 
The front pastedown contains the decorative ownership panel:
“Barnet Book of Photography — This Book Belongs To — 1905”
This remains unfilled.
 
Pages are lightly tanned but generally neat and clean with only occasional marks or creases.
 
There is:
a small ink stamp for “Pain & Bayles, Cornhill, Ipswich” to the front free endpaper 
manuscript corrections to pages 269 and 273 
 
Several pages have small marginal tears not affecting text or illustrations.
 
The pages remain secure overall, though there are gutter cracks beside the front pastedown, frontispiece, and a handful of additional pages.
 
The photographic plate facing page 266 is partially loose at the upper inner margin but remains attached.
 
Importantly:
all pages are present 
all photographic plates are present 
the original tissue guard survives 
 
Illustrations & Contents
 
16 Photographic plates present and include:
The Close Gateway, Winchester 
A Haul of Pilchards 
Volendam 
Hill and Dale 
The Majestic Main 
Gulls 
Rain From the Hills 
 
Technical sections include:
Negative-making 
Film photography 
Photographic lenses 
Hand cameras 
Bromide printing 
Carbon printing 
Ozotype 
Pictorial photography 
 
Physical Details
 
Pages: 312 plus ix pages at rear
Dimensions: Approximately 21.6 cm x 14.1 cm x 3.2 cm
Weight: Approximately 644 g
 
Rarity & Collector Notes
 
This title is best described as scarce in complete condition.
 
Early photography manuals were heavily used working books, and many surviving copies lack plates, tissue guards, or retain weakened bindings.
 
This example remains desirable for:
complete photographic plates 
surviving tissue guard for the frontispiece
pictorial photography interest 
extensive Edwardian technical photography content