A Hundred Years Ago. by Ford, Colin, & Brian HARRISON

Hardback. Very Good.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1983. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full gilt-embossed cordovan-coloured cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 335, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones &ct. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Colin John Ford  (born 1934) is a British photographic curator, historian of photography, and former museum director. Between 1972 and 1982 he was Keeper of Film and Photography at the National Portrait Gallery, London. He then became the first director of the UK National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford (later to become the National Media Museum). From 1992 he was Director of the National Museums and Galleries of Wales. See: Eyewitness with Curator Colin Ford on YouTube.

Allen Lane / Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1983. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. Illustrator: Photographic. Sources of photographs, acknowledgements, notes, further reading, chronology of events and index. As would be expected, the text is illustrated with copious black-and-white photography from Britain in the 1880s. Photographic paperback binding with orange and white coloured titles to the front panel and orange and yellow coloured titles to the back strip. In the 1880s the camera development had become such that it was more mobile, relatively fast and flexible, and, could be used outside stiff studio setting. In this book the decade of the 1880s has been photographed by various photographers in Britain dealing with all aspects of life: – including working life, childhood, education, recreations, pomp and ceremony and illness, old age and death were documented. A little creasing of the book corners with rubbing of the book edges, panels and either side of… Read More

Cambridge: Harvard University Press,, 1983.. First edition.. 335 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket.

Bloomsbury, 1994. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover.

Godfrey Cave Associates Ltd, 1994-07-28. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good in very good dust jacket HB

Harmondsworth, Middlesex.: Allen Lane/Penguin Books., 1983. 335pp, photographs.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Penguin, London 1983. 29.5 x 21.0cms, 334pp, b/w illusts, very good- paperback & cover (edgewear) The chapters are: photography & society; childhood; education & newspapers; home & family; church & chapel; work; recreation; regional loyalties; sociel tensions; aristocratic magic; discipline & authority; pomp & ceremony: illness & old age; death.

England, UK: Penguin Books Limited, 1983. Book. Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Softcover, first edition, 1270gms, 335 pages. The aim of this original book is to recapture the past by linking photographs with a historical discussion, to focus on the individual, his life cycle and his relationship to society and the environment. Book is in good condition with light general wear and tear and mild page discolouration throughout. Cover shows mild scuffing to corners and edges, otherwise no other pre-loved markings. Book weighs over 1kg and may incur additional postage..

(Allen Lane, 1983). Hardback. Very good+ in dustwrapper. 335pp.