254 Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, and Articles. 



Henry Pox Tabot and the Discovery of Photography. 



An article by H. Snowden Ward in the Camera Obscura for April, 

 1900, pp. 746 — 749, with illustrations of a photograph of a latticed 

 window, made "with the Camera Obscura, August, 1835," and exhibited 

 to the Royal Society in 1839, and also a contact print of " Fern " leaves 

 made in 1836. 



An Enquiry into the Early History of Photograhy, 



with a preliminary notice of William Henry Fox Talbot as " The 

 Pather Of Photography/' in the number of The Photogram 

 for December, 1899, runs through January, February, March, April, 

 June, July, August, and September : pp. 3—70, 35—38, 70—72, 97—100, 

 169—172, 223—225, 245—247, 275—281. The last three of these numbers 

 contain " a Sketch of the Life of W. H. Fox Talbot " and " the Internal 

 History of Talbotype or Calotype." 



The illustrations include : — an excellent full-page portrait of William 

 Henry Fox Talbot, and a smaller one — the Camera picture of 1835 — a 

 facsimile of a page of Talbot's paper to the Eoyal Society — The Contact 

 print of leaves, 1836— a Breakfast Table Scene (which has appeared in 

 Eliza Meteyard's " Life of Josiah Wedgwood " and is ascribed by her to 

 him : the negative, however, still exists at Lacock) — Lacock Abbey — 

 Fox Talbot's Establishment at Reading — Lacock Church — Church of S. 

 Maurice at Vienna — and Portal of St. Trophimus. at Aries — all from 

 Calotypes by Fox Talbot. 



The Mitred Benedictine Abbey of S. Aldhelm, 



Malmesbury, a Guide-Memoir by Mackenzie E. C. Walcott . . . 

 Jones & Son, High Street, Malmesbury, 1897. Pamphlet, cr. 8vo, pp. 

 51, with Plan of Malmesbury, Ground-plan of the Abbey, and very bad 

 woodcuts of The Tomb of King Athelstan — Exterior of the Abbey (North 

 and South sides), — Interior (East and West) — Market Cross as it stood 

 in 1800 — St. John's Arch. The letterpress, on the other hand, is very 

 much in advance of the ordinary small local guide book — the early 

 history of the Abbey, and of Mseldulph and St. Aldhelm — its endowments 

 and its architectural history are all treated of at considerable length 

 and in considerable detail — the abbey buildings now destroyed are 

 described as far as they are known, an account of the suppression is 

 given, as well as a list of the known abbots. Indeed it is not often that 

 you can buy for sixpence so good an account of any monastic building. 

 It would be much better without the illustrations, which give quite a 

 false idea of its contents. 



The Early History of London, Malmesbury, 



Cirencester, and the ancient Kingdom of Cornwall or the 

 Cassiterides ; with an account of the settlement in Britain of the Trojans, 

 Dorians, Cittians, Samaritans, Cassii and Cronii ; also of the descendants 

 of Gomer and Magog, the sons of Japhet : by John T. Painter, Malmes- 

 bury, Author of " The History and Genealogy of the Human Eace." 



