Smith, Samuel. Victorian Townscape: The Work of Samuel Smith. 1850s photographs. Signed Copy and composites

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Smith, Samuel. Victorian Townscape: The Work of Samuel Smith. 1850s photographs. Signed Copy and compositesOverlook, 1977, by Michael Millward and Brian Coe. Good hardcover in black cloth with crimped front board (probably happened during binding), small scuff on map on rear pastedown. In very good plus protected dust jacket. First U. S. edition, previously published in England. 120 pages. Described as the first English documentary photographer, Samuel Smith (1802 1892) was a timber merchant who took up photography in 1852 and made these photographs in