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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> In 1998 the discovery in a private archive of a long-abandoned group of folios of large-scale nineteenth century photo- graphs led to the recognition of a new name in the pantheon of British pioneers of the art of photography in the formative years of the 1850s. The name was that of William 2nd Earl of Craven. A year later Craven’s masterpiece a noble album of his most favoured works entitled A Round the Earl of Craven’s ??t?sta?d?? ????? emerged from a separate source. This album confirmed the rich promise of the cartier discovery Previously unknown to photographic covering an extraordinary range of techniques of the art and in his treatment of mood and subject matter which revealed a profound knowledge of ond relationship with he traditions of painting. Though a member of the newly formed Photographic Society Craven rarely exhibited preferring to develop his ideas in the privacy of his estate Ashdown Park some forty miles west of London. (MP)