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International guide to nineteenth-century photographers and their works; based on catalogues of auction houses and dealers, by Gary Edwards. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1988. 591p. ISBN 0-8161-8938-2. $50.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Barbara Polowy*
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Wallace Memorial Library, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, N.Y. 14623-0887, USA
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Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1989

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1. For example, an incomplete run of the publications issued by Lehr, Janet, Inc. of New York was indexed for the guide. Many of the catalogues omitted do include nineteenth century material: vol.1, no.1 (Sept. 1978), vol.2, no.1 (Sept. 1979), vol.3, no.2 (Dec. 1980), vol.3, no.3 (March 1981), vol.3, no.4 (June 1981), Catalogue 4 (1981?), vol.5, no.1 (Sept. 1982), vol.5 no.2 (Dec. 1982), vol.5, no.3 (March 1983), vol.5, no.4 (June 1983), vol.6, no.2 (Dec. 1983), vol.7, no.1/2 (Sept. 1985), vol.7, no.3/4 (March 1986), vol.8, no.2 (Nov. 1986).Google Scholar
2. The George Eastman House Photographers Biography File is a list of biographical information generated from a computer database maintained at the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House in Rochester, New York. Information for the database is drawn from the literature of photography and records of photographers whose work is represented in American collections. The list is published annually with quarterly updates and is available on microfiche by subscription for $125.00 per year from Light Impressions, 439 Monroe Avenue, Rochester, New York 14607-3717 USA.Google Scholar
3. Entries for the following materials have not been recorded in the guide: lots 46 to 64 of the Autumn 1976 Anderson & Hershkowitz Limited sales catalogue, twenty images by Emerson, P. H.; lots 646 and 934 of the Phillips, New York, May 22, 1982 sales catalogue, images by Thomas Annan and John Thomson; unnumbered lots of albumen prints by Francis Frith on pages 21 and 31 and by Valentine, James on page 32 of the 1973 Witkin Gallery, Inc. Catalogue 1.Google Scholar
4. Lot 355 of the 1973 Witkin Gallery, Inc. Catalogue 1, a print by O’Sullivan, Timothy H., is entered under both Sullivan, and Valentine, James in the guide. Sales entries under Jackson, William Henry for lots 260 and 261 of Sotheby’s, New York sale of November 9, 1982, are mistakenly recorded as the Phillips, New York, sale of the same day.Google Scholar
5. The presence of many useful notes from the Autumn 1976 Anderson & Hershkowitz Limited catalogue have not been recorded in the guide. These include notes for lots 38 to 41, giving information about sitters, artistic sources, and published reproductions of the prints by Julia Margaret Cameron offered for sale.Google Scholar