The chapters to follow are written by Reverend Thomas Frederick Hardwich, a photographic chemist, writer on photographic chemistry, demonstrator, and lecturer in photography at King's College London. The author is indeed an expert in his field, and he shares his knowledge throughout this publication.

Excerpt from A Manual of Photographic Chemistry: Including the Practice of the Collodion Process The impurities of chemicals will be pointed out as far as pos sible, and special directions given for their removal. Amongst the variety of Photographic processes devised, those only will be selected which are correct on theoretical grounds, and are found in practice to succeed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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