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RARE. Published in the same year as the original French edition, this is one of three English translations rushed out to capitalise on the immediate impact of Daguerre's work which was being demonstrated in London as early as september by M. de Sainte-Croix [see R. Derek Wood, Ste. Croix in London, History of Photography, Vol. 17 (1), pp.101-7, 1993]. The publisher William Strange placed an advertisement for this work in The Times on 14 September, and in The Literary Gazette in which he mispelled most of the information "M. Daguene's process of Daguenotype, or Philographic Drawing". The advertisement in the book assures the reader that "The following translation has been made with much care".