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The Conway in the Stereoscope, 
by James Bridge Davidson, 1860.
Stereo Photographs By Roger Fenton.
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[ Fenton ], Davidson, James Bridge : The Conway in the Stereoscope, Illustrated By Roger Fenton, With Notes, Descriptive and Historical by James Bridge Davidson. Lovell Reeve, London, 1860. 8vo (size approx 200mm x 130mm), original gilt embossed red cloth bevelled covers, all edges gilt. Bookplate of Thomas Kynnesley. Pp x, 187, 16pp adverts. With 20 mounted albumen stereograph pairs (each image approx 70mm x 75mm) of photographs by Roger Fenton (1819-1869) taken in 1857 during a tour of North Wales. Near-fine condition, almost un-opened, the photographs have a good tonal range with original tissue guards. A rare and unusual item by one of the masters of early photography. 

The 20 stereo photographs include the river, forest and mountainous areas around Betws-y-Coed, Capel Curig and the Lledr Valley in Snowdonia. The River Conway [Conwy] flows from the Snowdonia uplands through the villages and towns of Betws-y-Coed, Llanrwst, Trefriw and Conwy to the Irish Sea.

Just 15 years after the announcement of the 'invention' of photography by Henry Fox Talbot, Roger Fenton [1819-1869] returned from the Crimea War in 1855 where he had famously become the first war photographer with momentous, yet carefully judged images of that disastrous campaign. Just a few years later, in the wake of artists including J.M.W. Turner, he toured North Wales and captured, probably for the first time, carefully composed and highly selective photographic images of the area. This important volume was his last substantial stereoscopic landscape work before selling all his equipment and returning to the law in 1862.

Collections of Roger Fenton images and further information:-
Cat. No. 90518                                                £2,000

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