Description

Scovill & Adams. How to Make Photographs. And a Descriptive Catalogue of Requisites for the Amateur Photographer. New York: Scovill & Adams, 1891. 8vo, pictorial blue printed wrappers. xi, [4], 121 pp., v., numerous b&w illus.

An appealing trade catalog offering cameras and photographic accessories manufactured by the Scovill and Adams Co., with the firm name of J. W. Morrison, 10 Sixth Street, Pittsburgh, PA on the upper wrapper. Includes a preface entitled “How to Make Photographs” and such items as Albion cameras, Morrison lenses, Waterbury Detective Cameras, the Scovill Sciopticon, Carbutts Dry Plates and the mahogany Walmsley Photo-Micrographic camera which cost $18.00-$30.00. “The Photographic Times”, edited by W. Irving Adams is promoted as well.

CONDITION: Good, with 2” separation at head and foot of spine and flyleaf, otherwise clean, intact and bright.
 

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