The Civil War Through The Camera: Elson's New History In Sixteen Parts w/photos Rare find!!

Complete 16 volume set of “the civil War through the camera” -hundreds of vivid photographs a complete history of the Civil War. I have to find anyone with a complete set. These booklets contain photographs that have Stories attached to them. In great condition, All still bound beautifully there is few small areas of wear around the edges but that is expected pages are creamy white with no marks , highlight, or creases the 2nd to the last photo shows the marking from wear I assume but overall all are in great almost mint condition There are 16 books copyright 1912 by the patriot publishing company in Springfield mass A customer of mine email the folks at Bauman Rare Books they were able to identify the books their comments below. “HUNDREDS OF VIVID PHOTOGRAPHS ACTUALLY TAKEN IN CIVIL WAR TIMES”: THE CIVIL WAR THROUGH THE CAMERA (MILLER, Francis Trevelyan) (BRADY, Mathew) ELSON, Henry. The Civil War Through the Camera. New York: McKinlay, Stone & Mackenzie, [1912]. Quarto, modern three-quarter black cloth, printed paper spine label. First edition in book form, compiled from the 16 parts issued to promote Francis Trevelyan Miller’s classic Photographic History of the Civil War, with 16 color plates and numerous illustrations, many after photographs by legendary Civil War photographer Mathew Brady. To commemorate the semi-centennial of the Civil War, several publishers collaborated to produce the Photographic History of the Civil War, one of the classic works on the conflict. To generate sales, a subscriber’s edition of 16 parts was distributed weekly through major newspapers. Each part contains a full color frontispiece (not found in the Photographic History), variant text, and hundreds of Mathew Brady’s fascinating photographs, many never before published. This bound volume collects the material from those 16 parts, without the original printed paper wrappers. “Zealous in their work, often regardless of danger, and at all times handicapped by the vexing difficulties of the photographic process of that day,” Brady and his assistants “carried their cameras to every scene that promised an interesting picture,” capturing “scenes of actual conflict, others of places devastated by gunfire, of troops on the march or in bivouac, and of individual officers and men” (ANB).