Select Bibliography
Works by Talbot
Talbot, William Henry Fox, The Pencil of Nature. Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1844-1846.
Talbot, William Henry Fox, Sun Pictures in Scotland. 1846.
Schaaf, Larry J., ed., Anniversary Facsimile of H. Fox Talbot’s The Pencil of Nature. Hans P. Kraus, 1989.
Schaaf, Larry J., ed., Records of the Dawn of Photography: Talbot’s Notebooks P & Q. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Secondary Works
Arnold, H. J. P. William Henry Fox Talbot: Pioneer of Photography and Man of Science. Hutchinson, 1977.
Batchen, Geoffrey. Creations of a Moment: The Photography of William Henry Fox Talbot. Phaidon Press, 2008.
Batchen, Geoffrey. Inventing Photography: William Henry Fox Talbot in the Bodleian Library. Bodleian Library Publishing, 2022.
Batchen, Geoffrey. The Forms of Nameless Things: Experimental Photographs by William Henry Fox Talbot. Bodleian Library Publishing, 2022.
Brusius, Mirjam, Dean, Katrina, and Ramalingam, Chitra, eds., William Henry Fox Talbot: Beyond Photography. Yale Center for British Art, 2013.
Brusius, Mirjam. Fotografie und Museales Wissen: William Henry Fox Talbot, das Altertum und die Absenz der Fotografie. De Gruyter, 2015.
Buckland, Gail. Fox Talbot and the Invention of Photography. D. R. Godine, 1980.
Maimon, Vered. Singular Images, Failed Copies: William Henry Fox Talbot and the Early Photograph. University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
Roberts, Russell, and Hobson, Gregg. William Henry Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph. Scala, 2016.
Schaaf, Larry J. Out of the Shadows: Herschel, Talbot & the Invention of Photography. Yale University Press, 1992.
Schaaf, Larry J. The Photographic Art of William Henry Fox Talbot. Princeton University Press, 2000.
Ware, Mike. Mechanisms of Image Deterioration in Early Photographs: The Sensitivity to Light of W. H. F. Talbot’s Halide-fixed Images, 1834-1844. National Museum of Photography, Film, and Television, 1994.
Online Resources
The Archive of William Henry Fox Talbot and the Talbot family
The Correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot