Architecture, Country House – Addy (Sidney Oldall, MA) & Cro...

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Architecture, Country House – Addy (Sidney Oldall, MA) & Croston (James, FSA), An Account of Winfield [sic] Manor in Derbyshire with an introduction by Richard Keene, Derby, Richard Keene 1885 4to, illustrated with 6 platinotype photographic plates by Richard Keene and ten wood engravings, bound original boards (1) **Richard Keene (1825-1894) was a pioneer topographical photographer who established himself in Derby as a printer and bookseller. He was taught what he called the ‘art-science’ of photography by Revd. Edwin Abney, a friend of W H Fox-Talbot; his earliest topographical photograph can be dated to autumn 1853. Samuel Rayner (1806-1879) was a Matlock Bath based artist and father of a dynasty of artists, who was a friend of George Cattermole and Octavius Oakley