London: Bernard Quaritch, 2015. First edition. xxvi, 406pp; illus; plates. Oblong 4to. Gray cloth; dust jacket. Mild toning to edges of leaves, else fine in fine jacket.
Monograph on a trove of long-lost European daguerreotypes collected by English 19th-century writer and critic John Ruskin, and only unearthed at auction in 2006. With a catalog raisonné of the 325 known Ruskin daguerreotypes, and an additional 275 in-text illustrations, with five appendices, bibliography, and index at rear. Named the 2015 Book of the Year by Apollo Magazine, who described it as a "book of great significance for both the history of photography and an understanding of one of the most influential of all art critics that is also a gripping detective story and a tale of the survival against all the odds of a remarkable artistic legacy."
