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The full title of this FIRST English language book about photography is: Hunt, Robert, A Popular Treatise on the Art of Photography, Including Daguerreotype, and all the new methods of producing pictures by the chemical agency of light", Glasgow, 1841. This remarkable treatise is one of several published together in: "Novelties in Experimental Science...photography, Daguerreotype, mineralogy, geology and electro-chemistry", Glasgow, MDCCCXL. This is the first edition of a book long regarded as "the first real textbook" as well as "the first general treatise" of photography! See the final scan for comprehensive information about this historically important tome, which is 100% complete including the frontispiece to the photography book as well as the general title page which is lacking in the $2,050 copy described in the final scan.