thomson 1837 1921 (24 risultati)

Condizione: Good. Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. Illustrations of China and Its People: A Series of Two Hundred Photographs, With Letterpress Descriptive of the Places and People Represented.; Volume. Book.

Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. Illustrations of China and Its People: A Series of Two Hundred Photographs, With Letterpress Descriptive of the Places and People Represented.; Volume. Book.

Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. Illustrations of China and Its People: A Series of Two Hundred Photographs, With Letterpress Descriptive of the Places and People Represented.; Volume. Book.

Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. Illustrations of China and Its People: A Series of Two Hundred Photographs, With Letterpress Descriptive of the Places and People Represented.; Volume. Book.

2nd Edition, 1979. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 160 pages; Description: 160 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. Bibliography: p. 160. Subjects: China --Pictorial works. First ed. Published in 1873 under title: Illustrations of China and its people. Revised and edited John Warner edition published 1977. 3 Kg.

Condizione: New.

Hardback or Cased Book. Condizione: New. Illustrations of China and Its People: A Series of Two Hundred Photographs, With Letterpress Descriptive of the Places and People Represented.; Volume. Book.

PF. Condizione: New.

2nd Edition, 1979. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 160 pages; Description: 160 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. Bibliography: p. 160. Subjects: China --Pictorial works. First ed. Published in 1873 under title: Illustrations of China and its people. Revised and edited John Warner edition published 1977. 1 Kg.

PF. Condizione: New.

PF. Condizione: New.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condizione: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. John Thomson ( Photographs) (illustratore). Revised Edition. This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in black cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is lightly sunned to the spine but still in as new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. John Thomson (1837-1919) was a an inveterate traveller, writer and pioneer photographer, left China in 1872 after spending almost ten years in the Far East. This book is a rediscovery of John Thomson's work in China it contains a fine selection of over one hundred and forty photographs interwoven with his impressions and observations. Ref DFC 2.

Paperback / softback. Condizione: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Paperback / softback. Condizione: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Hardback. Condizione: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Hardback. Condizione: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

A series of two hundred photographs with letterpress descriptions of the places and people represented. London : Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, 1873-74. First edition. Four volumes, folio, gilt-illustrated pictorial cloth over bevelled boards (corners bumped, edges rubbed and scuffed), the first volume rebacked with original spine laid down; containing a total of 200 photographs printed on 96 plates, with guard sheets and accompanying letterpress descriptions; a few expertly sealed marginal tears to the first leaves of the first volume, occasional light foxing (not affecting the plates), a very good set. Scottish-born photographer John Thomson moved to Hong Kong in 1868, after spending three years as a professional photographer with a studio in Singapore and another year in Bangkok. From his base in Hong Kong, Thomson sailed far up the east coast of China and ventured inland to places where the population had never seen a Westerner or a camera before. Thomson photographed a wide array of Chinese people and topography, returning to England in 1872. In 1873, the first two volumes of his monumental Illustrations of China and its people was published, featuring photographs reproduced using the autotype process. 600 copies were printed of each volume. The print run increased to 750 copies for the third and fourth volumes respectively in 1874, with an additional 150 copies of the first two volumes reissued to complement the additional copies (these are marked Second Edition). The set offered here is a complete set of the first edition of the most important nineteenth-century photographic publication on China.

London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881. Quarto (285 x 220 mm), publisher's pictorial red cloth stamped in gilt and black (boards with light staining and flecking, spine sunned and flecked, text block a little sprung), original patterned endpapers, pp [2], [1]-100, with 21 original woodburytypes from Thomson's original dry-plate negatives, each with printed caption and red ruled border, mounted as individual plates on the rectos of the leaves between pages 3 and 43; all of the woodburytpes and their page mounts are in superb condition, without fading or foxing; title page and last page of text with browning (as in other examples), upper margins of a few text pages with mild insect damage, hinges cracked but holding. The first use of published photographs as social documentary. In 1877-78 John Thomson had first collaborated with radical socialist writer Adolphe Smith Headingley in creating 36 photographs accompanied by textual commentary for the monthly parts of Street Life in London. Of this collaborationJohn Hannavy, inThe Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography, wrote: 'The bringing together of the photographer John Thomson and the left-wing political writer and activist Adolphe Smith Headingley to work on the project which resulted in Street Life of London (1877-78), was a logical progression from the collaboration between Richard Beard and Henry Mayhew more than two decades earlier on Mayhew's study of London Labour and the London Poor. Headingley, who wrote under the name of Adolphe Smith, was relatively unknown when he and Thomson collaborated on Street Life and the pairing was an inspired one. Both men had sympathy towards the living and working conditions of their subjects.' In 1878 the twelve monthly parts ofStreet Lifewere reissued in book form; in 1881 an abridged version, Street Incidents,was published which retained the 1878 text but included only 21 of the 36 photographs (the present edition). Street Incidentswas issued essentially as a new work, and the publishers do not credit Thomson as the creator of the strikingly sharp imagesphotomechanically reproduced by the Woodburytype process from the photographer?s original dry-plate negatives. The images in Street Incidents are titled as follows: A Convict's Home; The Wall Worker; Covent Garden Labourers; Halfpenny Ices; Black Jack; The Cheap Fish of St. Giles; Cast-iron Billy; Worker's on the "Silent Highway"; The Street Fruit Trade; The London Boardmen; The Water-cart; "Mush-Fakers" and Ginger-Beer Makers; November Effigies; "Hookey Alf" of Whitechapel; The Crawlers; Italian Street Musicians; The Street Locksmith; The Seller of Shell-fish; Flying Dustmen; Old Furniture; The Independent Shoeblack. The taxonomic approach taken by Thomson to his work can almost be considered scientific: like an anthropologist, he was concerned to classify and accurately capture what he referred to as "the true types of the London poor". Smith (Headingley), with his evocative contextual essays based on interviews with the subjects, brought the element of reformist zeal to the equation. "A pioneering work of social documentation in photographs and words . one of the most significant and far-reaching photobooks in the medium's history." (Parr & Badger, Thephotobook: a history, I, 48).

London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881. Quarto (285 x 220 mm), publisher's pictorial red cloth stamped in gilt and black (boards with light staining and flecking, spine sunned and flecked, text block a little sprung), original patterned endpapers, pp [2], [1]-100, with 21 original woodburytypes from Thomson's original dry-plate negatives, each with printed caption and red ruled border, mounted as individual plates on the rectos of the leaves between pages 3 and 43; all of the woodburytpes and their page mounts are in superb condition, without fading or foxing; title page and last page of text with browning (as in other examples), upper margins of a few text pages with mild insect damage, hinges cracked but holding. The first use of published photographs as social documentary. In 1877-78 John Thomson had first collaborated with radical socialist writer Adolphe Smith Headingley in creating 36 photographs accompanied by textual commentary for the monthly parts of Street Life in London. Of this collaborationJohn Hannavy, inThe Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography, wrote: 'The bringing together of the photographer John Thomson and the left-wing political writer and activist Adolphe Smith Headingley to work on the project which resulted in Street Life of London (1877-78), was a logical progression from the collaboration between Richard Beard and Henry Mayhew more than two decades earlier on Mayhew's study of London Labour and the London Poor. Headingley, who wrote under the name of Adolphe Smith, was relatively unknown when he and Thomson collaborated on Street Life and the pairing was an inspired one. Both men had sympathy towards the living and working conditions of their subjects.' In 1878 the twelve monthly parts ofStreet Lifewere reissued in book form; in 1881 an abridged version, Street Incidents,was published which retained the 1878 text but included only 21 of the 36 photographs (the present edition). Street Incidentswas issued essentially as a new work, and the publishers do not credit Thomson as the creator of the strikingly sharp imagesphotomechanically reproduced by the Woodburytype process from the photographer?s original dry-plate negatives. The images in Street Incidents are titled as follows: A Convict's Home; The Wall Worker; Covent Garden Labourers; Halfpenny Ices; Black Jack; The Cheap Fish of St. Giles; Cast-iron Billy; Worker's on the "Silent Highway"; The Street Fruit Trade; The London Boardmen; The Water-cart; "Mush-Fakers" and Ginger-Beer Makers; November Effigies; "Hookey Alf" of Whitechapel; The Crawlers; Italian Street Musicians; The Street Locksmith; The Seller of Shell-fish; Flying Dustmen; Old Furniture; The Independent Shoeblack. The taxonomic approach taken by Thomson to his work can almost be considered scientific: like an anthropologist, he was concerned to classify and accurately capture what he referred to as "the true types of the London poor". Smith (Headingley), with his evocative contextual essays based on interviews with the subjects, brought the element of reformist zeal to the equation. "A pioneering work of social documentation in photographs and words . one of the most significant and far-reaching photobooks in the medium's history." (Parr & Badger, Thephotobook: a history, I, 48).