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Book Title: William Henry Fox Talbot and the Promise of Photography
Item Length: 10in
Item Height: 0.6in
Item Width: 8.7in
Author: Dan Leers
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Individual Photographers / Monographs, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General
Publisher: Carnegie Museum of Art, T.H.E.
Publication Year: 2017
Genre: Photography
Item Weight: 21.9 Oz
Number of Pages: 96 Pages
