Julia Margaret Cameron: Her Life and Photographic Work

New York: An Aperture Monograph, 1975 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Second Edition, Re-Issue. 4to. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 200 pp, b&w frontis, Introduction to the First Edition, 1948; Foreword to the Second Edition, 1974; acknowledgments, chronology, Part I. Julia Margaret Cameron's Life and Environment; Part II. Julia Margaret Cameron's Photographic Work; The Plates; Famous Men and Women Who Were Portrayed by Julia Margaret Cameron; Presentation of Photograph Albums; Illustrations to Tennyson's Idylls of the King; Apendices: A. Annals of My Glass House; B. Mrs. Cameron's Preface to Her Translation of Burger's Leonora; C. Published Poem of Julia Margaret Cameron; footnotes, notes on the plates, bibliography, index with 20 b&w illustrations and 60 full-page reproductions. Second Edition, 1975. "With a thoroughness matching that of his subject, the author has brought to light an immense amount of previously unknown material concerning both the biographical and photographic concerns ofCameron's life. With painstaking scholarship and a sense of humor he paints an entertaining and vivid picture of this eccentric Victorian woman who found her vocation at the age of forty-eight. He, further, conveys the sweep of Cameron's society and discusses fully her technique and the influence of her work of Victorian poetry and painting." from the jacket flap. Price clipped. Only the slightest wear to top edge spine dj, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Maroon quarter-cloth with maroon paper-covered boards, and gilt lettering to spine..