"The subjects of Siân Echard’s thorough new account are engravings, drawings and photographs of medieval manuscriptsmade from the early eighteenth century to the First World War." Read more about FACSIMILE in Daniel Wakelin's excellent review for @thetls.bsky.social! https://bit.ly/43Wmd8v
Among the achievements of the pioneering photographer William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–77), there was facsimile. As early as 1839, he reproduced a page from