Göttingen/Rochester/NY: Steidl/George Eastman House/International Center of Photography, 2005. First edition. 552pp; plates. Thick 4to. Purple cloth; silver spine titles; dust jacket. Mild toning to edges of leaves, else fine in fine jacket.
Authoritative monograph on the mid-19th century American photographers Albert Sands Southworth and Josiah Johnson Hawes, "featuring over 150 full-scale color reproductions as well as nearly 2,000 additional black-and-white illustrations" (jacket flap). Essays by Alan Trachtenberg, Grant B. Romer, John Stauffer, Bates Lowry and Lsabel Lowry, and Wendy Wick Reaves and Sally Pierce. With five appendices and additional back matter including a chronology, checklist, and bibliography.
