41. Books with original photos from the 1800s. Francis Bedford, T. Ogle, Roger Fenton. 1860-67.

With Fox Talbot's invention of the paper negative in 1841, multiplying the individual photograph became possible and new possibilities presented themselves for illustrations for books and magazines. But both Fox Talbot's and later Walter Woodbury's methods were costly and slow and made it necessary to trim the photographs before mounting them in books and journals.

The supreme quality of the illustrations meant, however, that from the 1860s until 1900 a number of books and journals were illustrated in this way. The subjects of these photographs were portraits or topography. It was the static, and not events, that one was able to immortalize in photography of the past.

The three books with mounted original photos are:

• W.M. Thompson: The Holy Land, Egypt, Constantinople etc. London 1867. With 47 photographs by Francis Bedford
• William Wordsworth: Our English Lakes, Mountains and Waterfalls. London 1866. With 12 photographs by T. Ogle
• James Bridge Davidson: The Conway in the Stereoscope. London 1860. With 20 photographs by Roger Fenton.