Actually I think (but I may be wrong) that Tischendorf's 1862 publication is NOT a photographic facsimile, but an extraordinarily elaborate typeset 'facsimile', and so really an edition, not a facsimile. (It is described, usually, as a 'typographic facsimile'). The first facsimile of Sinaiticus is (I think) the Kirslopp Lake facsimile of 1922. There is an interesting history to be written of 'type-facsimiles': quite a few were published in the C19, and are rather amazing monuments of the typesetting and editorial arts. However, for the first *photographic* facimile we should look elsewhere, I believe.
Peter Robinson
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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
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