Written By:
Charlotte Williams
Publication Date:
Thu, 16/06/2011 - 08:59
Pan Macmillan has acquired a non-fiction work about the race between two eccentric characters on either side of the English Channel in the 1830s to develop the world's first photograph.
Non-fiction publisher Jon Butler bought UK & Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, to Capturing the Light by Roger Watson and Helen Rappaport through Charlie Viney at The Viney Agency.
The book features English polymath Henry Fox Talbot and Louis Daguerre in France as they raced to claim the new technology and techniques.
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