RichardB Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 Sheffield and its neighbourhood Photographically Illustrated (1865) Theophilus Smith £11.97, 7 bids, including me - likely to go beyond my means ... 2 days left Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted April 22, 2012 Author Share Posted April 22, 2012 £25.73, I'm out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted April 22, 2012 Author Share Posted April 22, 2012 £333.33, aye OK, some serious folks out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted April 22, 2012 Share Posted April 22, 2012 £333.33, aye OK, some serious folks out there. 1865 is so old it goes back to the early days of photography before Mr. Eastman invented roll film and pictures were taken on glass plates with a relatively slow emulsion requiring quite long exposure times. Regardless of the fact that these are images of Sheffield, and so of particular interest to us, they could actually have been taken anywhere and their age and content would still be worth seeing. The price doesn't really suprise me like some of the "silly money" prices on eBay do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted April 22, 2012 Author Share Posted April 22, 2012 Give you £15 for a re-print from 1993 ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Give you £15 for a re-print from 1993 ... Thought it was an original which was up for sale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted April 23, 2012 Author Share Posted April 23, 2012 It was and I'll still offer you £15 for a 1993 reprint ... just out of interest. Thought it was an original which was up for sale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bayleaf Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 Or £12.59 ( or less) on Amazon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted April 24, 2012 Author Share Posted April 24, 2012 That's more like it. Thanks Bayleaf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bayleaf Posted May 10, 2012 Share Posted May 10, 2012 Or £12.59 ( or less) on Amazon So I bought a copy. It's published in the British Library General Historical Collections, digitised by Microsoft. The whole thing looks photocopied rather than digitised. It's an interesting read, though some of the pages are a bit poor. But if you're tempted by the "Photographically Illustrated" bit, beware. In the whole book there are 15 photographs, all of things and places you can find elsewhere, and while some of the reproduction of the text is occasionally poor, reproduction of almost all of the photographs is extreme bad, the sort of result you'd get from a clapped-out photocopier on a bad day. Just one or two are only poor, and they're nothing to get excited about. But photos aside, still a useful addition to my library. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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