Hi Jason,
Yes, that one is very nice. Many copies available on AbeBooks.com, but complete and in the slip-case, it will cost at least 5 times what Shadowcatcher’s one does. The cool thing about the Winter House edition is that it presents both Daguerre’s first edition published by Giroux in France, and the first English edition by McLean’s, London, 1839, as well as other interesting text and images. The last image in the “Introduction” section is a 1971 daguerreotype of skyscrapers in Manhattan by none other than cdags member Harvey Zucker!
The American Photographic Historical Society also put one out in 1989 for their 20th Anniversary. It was reprinted from the first English language edition published by McLean’s. It usually starts at over US $20.
My sister gave me one that she found in Paris. It was reprinted by Rumeur des Ages editions, La Rochelle, Fr. in 1982 from the Giroux “Neuvelle Edition” which Giroux noted was the “corrected version, and augmented by a portrait of the author.” This reprint’s reproduction of Grevedon’s lithograph portrait of Daguerre is very nice, high quality.
Hm. This got me thinking… I’ll write to Gary Ewer to see if he knows how many various reprints have been published, perhaps just since 1970, just to put a limit on it.
