--- Peter Shillingsburg <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> John,
> on behalf of the list membership could I ask you
> to point to sources for the information you give.
> I'm not questioning the accuracy; just wonder where
> it came from and what else might be found there?
>
> Peter
>
Dear Peter and List:
A very fair question is asked regarding sources for
Alexander Bain and Frederick Collier Bakewell. I
answered the original query in haste not realizing
some might not be familiar with them, and gave the
info off the top of my head, so to speak.
Browsing through some books that discuss these are :
Michael Noll, The Evolution of Media (2006) : 46. Noll
dates them as I have given them.
However, Stephen Johnson, On Digital Photography
(2006) : 21, dates Bain to 1843 and Bakewell at 1847
John M. Sturge, Vivian Walworth, and Allan Shepp,
Imaging Processing and Materials. 8th ed. (1989) : 40,
dates Bakewell at 1845.
These, and other books, are available online through
Google Books. Perhaps better sources are found
elsewhere, but the dating for a terminus post quem to
the 1840's for a photographic facsimile is obviated by
the inventions of both these men. This leaves the
1850's for the most probable earliest date of any
photographic facsimile of a manuscript which others
have already given commentary.
Sorry for the delay, but holidays here in the colonies
and other matters have kept me from my own work on my
computer.
Best to all,
John
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The list of the European Society for Textual
> Scholarship and the Society for Textual Scholarship
> on behalf of John Lupia
> Sent: Wed 21/11/2007 22:11
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Facsimile editions
>
> Alexander Bain invented the photograph facsimile in
> 1842. By 1848 the rotating drum recorder was
> invented
> by Frederick Bakewell in London.
>
> There are probably no photographic facsimiles of
> books
> before 1848, and they probably first emerged in the
> 1850's.
>
> Tischendorf had published, Bibliorum codex
> sinaiticus
> petropolitanus, a 4 volume facsimile in 1862.
>
>
> John
>
> --- Wim Van Mierlo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Dear List,
> >
> > Does anybody here know when the first
> > photographically-reproduced facsimile of a book or
> > manuscript was published?
> >
> > Facsimiles had been around since before the
> > invention of photography, using other techniques
> > such as etching, but I would like to know when
> > photography came to play a role. The idea itself
> was
> > indirectly suggested by Fox Talbot, who c. 1840s,
> > produced a photograph of a manuscript of Byron's
> > "Ode to Napoleon".
> >
> > Many thanks
> > Wim
> >
>
>
> John N. Lupia III
> New Jersey, USA; Beirut, Lebanon
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Roman-Catholic-News/
> God Bless Everyone
>
>
>
>
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