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NY: St. Martin's Press, 1973. First U.S. edition. Cameron, Julia Margaret. 8vo., 203 pp., 22 full-page captioned photos. Fine in fine dust jacket.

NY: St. Martin's Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dust wrapper. 1973. First US Edition. Hardcover. 203 pages. Spine head very lightly bumped, page edges pale tan. A very nice copy indeed. Unclipped, white dust wrapper lightly yellowed and soiled. ; <b>'Julia Margaret Cameron, (1815-79) had an immense influence on nineteenth-century photography. Her portraits and tableaux-vivants (many posed to illustrate poetry or represent literary figures) were produced in the 1860s and 1870s within the most important artistic circles in Victorian England and have enjoyed almost continuous popularity for over a century. Closely connected with the Pre-Raphaelite group, her work shares their nostalgia and love of literary and mythological subject matter.' <p>'Settled in the Isle of Wight in 1860, near enough to her friends the Tennysons to visit informally, she bcame as well-known for her good-hearted eccentricity as for her determination to catch likely sitters.'… Read More

St. Martin’s Press, 1973. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

London:: Owen, 1973., 1973. 8vo. 203 pp. 22 illus., bibliog., index. Brown cloth, gilt-stamped spine title, dust jacket; jacket torn with tape repairs. Burndy bookplate. Very good. ISBN: 0720604729

Peter Owen Ltd., London, 1973. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first UK edition (first printing), published the same year as the US edition. 8vo. 203pp. Brown boards lettered in gold at the spine. With a double-spread family tree and twenty-two photographic plates. Endpapers very lightly spotted. A very good copy in lightly edgeworn non-price-clipped dust wrapper. An interesting study of the Prattle family ("Prattledom"), focusing specifically on the seven daughters, the most famous being photography pioneer Julia Margaret Cameron..