The negative and print, or, The photographer's guide in the gallery and in the field : being a text-book for the operator and amateur, containing brief and concise instructions for the preparation of the different kinds of photographs now in vogue. Such as the ordinary negative for contact printing, the solar negative and the negative for the copying camera, printing on albumen paper, vignette printing, printing positives on opal or plain glass, the ambrotype, ferrotype, melainotype etc., stereographic printing, the dry process, the construction of the glass-house, the camera and the lens, and the treatment of the gold and silver residues
A Victorian photography manual by John Towler, published in New York by J.H. Ladd in 1870, written as a practical text-book for working photographers and amateurs on negatives, printing processes and darkroom equipment. The only picture is a bookplate rather than a process illustration, showing a Franklin Institute label with an engraved oval medallion of a hand-driven lever or mechanism, framed by ornate scrollwork and lettering reading 'Purchased with the Bloomfield H. Moore Memorial Fund'; a designer could take its ornate Victorian letterforms, banded border and centred medallion layout as period reference.
