Practical guide to photography
A photography handbook compiled by Marion and Co. and published in London in 1884, aimed at amateur and practising photographers. Its pictures are plain black-and-white wood engravings of camera parts: a lens mounted in a brass cell, a wooden printing frame with a slotted plate holder, and a box camera with a round or shaped aperture on its back. For a designer, they offer clean, mechanical line drawings with dense hatching, useful for vintage technical diagrams and Victorian instrument styling.
