Stereoscopes: The First One Hundred Years

Wing, Paul

ISBN 10: 0965449742 ISBN 13: 9780965449748

Published by Transition Publishing, Nashua, New Hampshire, 1996

Language: English

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Orange cloth over boards. Color-illustrated dust jacket with plastic cover, black spine with white lettering. x; 262 pp. 700+ BW illustrations. "[The author] shares with us a cornucopia of 2-D and 3-D photos of rare stereoscopes, patent drawings, engravings, and early advertisements. The easy-to-read text is enhanced by numerous examples scarcely known outside a small group of collectors and museum curators.More than 700 photographs, engravings, patent drawings, and period advertisements illustrate the variety of forms that this optical instrument has taken." --Excerpt from front flap. VG-/VG-. Dj shows signs of rubbing, other general wear. Dj flaps are glued to the end papers, with some glue showing through. Blue/red pen marks on rear end paper. Ex-library with usual marks, including bookplate on rear free end paper. Pages are slightly tanned along edges, but are otherwise clean and tight.

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Stereoscopes: The First One Hundred Years

Publisher

Transition Publishing, Nashua, New Hampshire

Publication Date

1996

Language

English

ISBN 10

0965449742

ISBN 13

9780965449748

Binding

Hardcover

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Wing, a Lifetime Award winner from the Stereoscopic Society of America, makes use of his 50 years of fascination and study to give a thorough review of that staple of the Victorian parlor, the stereoscope. Though much has been written on stereoscopic images and photography, Wing focuses on the viewing device itself and its cousins, daguerreotype viewing cases, stereographoscopes, and taxiphotes. Wing traces the stereoscope's history from early beginnings in France and Sir Charles Wheatstone's coining of the name in 1850s England to its great popularity in the United States from the 1860s to the 1940s. The variety of the devices built for the consumer is very impressive, ranging from the single hand-held viewer to elaborately formed wooden tabletop models. Though slightly technical at times, the book covers all of the noted inventors, includes an appendix with patent numbers for collectors, and supplements the text with 700 photographs, engravings, patent drawings, and period advertisements. Recommended for larger photography and antique collections.?Joseph C. Hewgley, Nashville P.L.
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