Publication Timeline
It is interesting to look at the publications produced by Percy Lund and Henry Snowden Ward. Where possible, links have been provided so the books can be read online.
Matthew Surface is the pseudonym used by Percy Lund.
1881
1883
Percy Lund at the Yorkshire College.
1884
PL The Practical Naturalist
HSW Secretary of The Practical Naturalist's Society and contributor to The Naturalist's World Journal
Percy 21 years of age
1881
1883
1884
Percy Lund
Henry Snowden Ward
Other Timeline
December 1886 Death of Percy’s father Joseph Lund.
Percy Lund & Co move to 20 St Johns Street Bradford.
December 1886 Sale of Ilkley Free Press.
HSW moves from Bradford to London
Percy marries Annie Field daughter of Martin Field, Master Printer.
HSW elected member of The Royal Photographic Society.
HSW writes article on Catherine Weed Barnes for Practical Photographer.
HSW marries Catherine Weed Barnes and leaves Percy Lund & Co
HSW joint director of Dawbarn and Ward
HSW Fellow of Royal Photographic Society.
Percy Lund & Co formed into a Limited Company. First Directors meeting 20th May 1895
Percy Lund Photographic Department sold to Appleton & Co
Percy Lund & Co Ltd change their name to Percy Lund Humphries & Co Ltd 4th Aug 1896
HSW toured the country giving lectures on X Rays.
HSW a founder member of the Rontgen Society.
1898 PL member of Royal Photographic Society.
1899 Percy President of the Bradford Photographic Society and the Yorkshire Photographic Union from 1899-1903
Naturalist World and Scientific Record 1884-87 - Journal Edited by Percy Lund. Copy available at the British Library. Ref p.p.1977.d 002849661 and Leeds Library.
1884-86
Ilkley Free Press. One of Ilkley’s local newspapers. Proprietor PL
‘The Sixpenny Ilkley Guide Book’ by PL
1885
1886
1887
1888
1889
‘Wise Sayings’ by PL Country Press, Ilkley
‘The Photographers World’ March 1886- 1889
Virginia and other poems by Albert Francis Cross Publ by PL. British Library ref BLL01000825614
The 1887 Catalogue of Photographic Materials and Printed Matter.
A History of Photography by W Jerome Harrison F.G.S. Publ by PL Appendix by Dr Maddox on the discovery of the Gelatino Bromide Process 150p Price 1s 6d
Poems by Charles Frederick Forshaw. Publ PL
‘Old Bradford Illustrated’ Publ by PL
1890
The Practical Photographer 1890-1900, HSW editor 1890 -1893, PL Editor 1893-1900 24 pages of reading matter. Many illustrations. Monthly 1d. Double numbers in April, August and December Price 2d
1890
1891
1891
1892
1893
1893
‘Photography as a business’ by Henry Peach Robinson. Reprinted from the Practical Photographer. 86p No3 in Practical Photographer series. British Library ref 08909.g.21 BLL01003124129 To the novice commencing business this practical manual is indispensable. It should also be in the hands of all who desire to improve their business and mature their resources. Price Paper 1s 0d. Cloth 1s 6d
C 1890 The Practical Photographers First Handbook by Matthew Surface with a preface by H. P. Robinson. Used by London School Boards. A Complete guide and instructor in modern photography. 7th edition revised by HSW. Excellent frontispiece. 86p Price 6d
Upper Airedale a history and guide with maps and illustrations. (Percy Lund & Co series No3) Publ by Percy Lund & Co Bradford and London
'Bromide paper Instructions for contact printing and enlarging Vol IV' by Dr E A Just translated by Walter E Woodbury and HSW, Publ by PL wth bromide paper frontispiece. Price 1s 0d. Practical Photographer Series No 4
‘My experience as an executioner’ written by James Berry, edited by HSW, Publ by PL
Lichfield and its Cathedral by Henry Snowden Ward. Publ Percy Lund & Co.
The Practical Ferrotyper by HSW. Publ PL 54p A Complete instruction book for the 'wet' ferrotype process. Price 9d. Practical Photographer series No2. British Library ref YA.1993.a.13644 BLL01011277854
‘ABC of Theosophy’ author HSW, Publ by PLKarma and its twin doctrine of re-incarnation. The foundation doctrines of Theosophy. 14p by HSW, Publ by PL
‘Photography in Natural Colours’ c1893
Eight articles on the subject of amateur photography for the Leeds Mercury, Manchester Times, Derby Reporter and others.
The Photomechanics of Printed Illustration
Practical essays on Art. Practical hints on composition, light and shade and the education of the eye. by John Burnet Publ PL in 1893 British Library ref YA.1993.b.736 BLL01006713513. The online version is a later publication. The original version of this book was published in 1848.
Novel dishes for vegetarian households by Mary Pope and Catherine Golden Bitting. Publ by PL. British Library ref W27/8928
The Practical Photographer's Label Book. Book containing over 100 labels, varnished on front and gummed behind. The labels for poisonous chemicals have the handiest antidotes indicated in bold type. Price 6d
The Evolution of Photography by John Werge. With a chronologcal record of discoveries, inventions etc. Contributions to Photographc Literature Reminiscences extending over fourty years. Illustrated with ten callotype portraits. Neatly bound cloth. 312 pages 3s 6d
Pateley Bridge and Nidderdale by PL
The key to Theosophy by H P Blavatsky Publ by PLH
1894
1895
1896
1895
1895-97
Junior Photographer 1894-1900 Conducted by Matthew Surface.
In Memoriam. George Paul McDonell
Pub by PL & Co
Photography and Mountain Climbing by Matthew Surface
The Junior Photographer Series of Handbooks
No 1 Snap Shot Photography by Martin J Harding
No 2 The Darkroom and its Equipment by H. J. L. J. Masse
No 3 Lantern Slides their production and use by J Pike
Burton's Manual of Photography by W K Burton
The camera and it appurtenances by H J L J Masse
Developers their use and abuse by Richard Penlake
The A B C of retouching by Andrew Young.
The Popular Series
All Published by Percy Lund and Percy Lund Humphries
No 1 Drop Shutter Photography by Fred W Pilditch. BL ref RB.23.a.29888 BLL01002916878
The Photogram 1894-1905
The Work of the Camera. A series of articles for ‘The Sketch’ covering Artificial lighting, Panoramic Photography etc
1895
A handbook of Illustration by Alfred Horsley Hinton. Publ Dawbarn and Ward
Wilson's Cyclopaedic Photography by E L Wilson Publ Dawbarn and Ward 1894
'Photo-Ceramics. Photography applied to the decoration of Plaques, Pottery, and other Ceramics and Metallic surfaces.' by Henry, W.Ethelbert (CE) and Ward, H. Snowden.
Paper in The Photographic Journal entitled 'The ideal of Half-Tone Printing'
Photo Lithography by Georg Fritz translated by E J Wall publ by Dawbarn and Ward 1895
The Process Photogram 1895-1905
1896
Shakespeare's Towns and Times.
By HSW and Catherine Weed. Publ by Dawbarn adn Ward.
Wrote Aarticle 'The New Light' in the February 1896 edition of The English Illustrated Magazine.
Practical Radiography: A Hand-Book of the Applications of the X-Rays published by The Photogram
The Real Dickens Land with an Outline of Dickens's Life..
No 2 The darkroom and its equipment by H J L J Masse.
1895-1896
No 3 Lantern Slides their production and use by J Pike
No 4 Developers their use and abuse by Richard Penlake.
No 5 Camera and its appurtenances. By H J L J Masse
No 6 The ABC of retouching by Andrew Young. With both portrait and landscape retouching and a guide to the anatomy of expression.
No 7 Photography and Architecture by Ephraim Macdowell Cosgrove MD F.R.C.P.I. 52p
No 8 Indoor Photography & Flash light studies of child subjects by Bertha M Lothrop with over 20 half tone illustrations.
No 9 The Elements of stereoscopic photography by C F Seymour Rothwell F.C.S.
No 10 The X Rays by Arthur Thornton M.A. Senior Science Master Bradford Grammar School. With 25 half tone and other illustrations.
No 11 The Camera and the Pen. By T C Hepworth F.C.S. With frontispiece and several illustrations.
No 12 Photography as a Hobby. By Matthew Surface. With Frontispiece and 15 half tone illustrations. British Library ref 8909.h.45/12 BLL01003544618
No 13 Bromide Enlargements and how to make them. By J Pike
Lund Library of Photography
The stereoscope and stereoscopic photography by F Drouin translated from french by Matthew Surface. 179p Publ by PL British Library Ref 8909.eee.42/4. BLL01000985311
Half tone on the American basis by Wilhelm Cronenberg 164p Publ by PL. British Library. Ref 8909.eee.42/2 BLL01000823992
The half tone process a practical manual on photo engraving in half tone on zinc and copper. by Julius Verfasser. 172p British Library ref 8909.eee.42/5 BLL01003775994
Photography for Artists by Hector Maclean F.R.P.S. F.G.S. 152p Publ by PL British Library ref 8909.eee.42/6 BLL01002326841
Plates and Papers - How made and used. Based upon practical experience in the factory and studio. By Henry C Steifel 196p Publ by PL British Library Ref 8909.eee.42/1 BLL01003505090
Photographic Lenses: How to choose and use. By John Alfred Hodges. 142p British Library ref 8909.eee.42/3 BLL01001700063
1896
Sensitized papers: How made and used by Dr H C Stiefel
Lunds Directory of Photographers
Contains over 15,000 photographers, Photographic Material Manufacturers, Merchants, Dealers and Shippers in the British Isles, British Colonies, etc. Strongly Bound in cloth. 196 pages. British Library ref P.P.2495cao BLL01000948958
The elements of a pictorial photograph by Henry Peach Robinson
1897-1935
Process work and the printer Journal March 1896-Feb 1899 Vol 4-6 (no34-69)- Journal. Publ by PL and later PLH. Previously called Process Work March 1893- Feb 1896 Vol 1-3 (no1-33) and later called Process Work Vol 7-11 April 1899-Dec1903 (no 1-57)
Quarter Century in Photography by Edward L Wilson Ph. D.
Photography and Photographers in Japan edited by Matthew Surface Vol VII, 1896 No81 31 pages. Possibly supplement of The Practical Photographer Australian edition.
Early work in photography: a text book for beginners, with a chapter on lenses by H Snowden Ward. by Henry W Ethelbert.
Photograms of the year from 1906
1897
1898-9
1899
1900
1901
The Process yearbook - Penrose's Annual. Printed by PLH from 1897 and responsible for content from 1906.
Photography as a Hobby by Matthew Surface.
Early Days of Photography A reminiscence of fifty years by Matthew Surface and Horatio Nelson King.
The International Annual Anthony's Photographic Bulletin Printed in England by PLH
The Practical Photographers First Handbook by Matthew Surface with a preface by H. P. Robinson. Ninth edition. Possibly first published several years earlier. Used by London School Boards.
The Practical and Junior Photographer. From August 1900 when both journals were combined..
The Illustrated Annual of Microscopy 164p Publ PLH
The Development of Cyprus and Rambles in the Island by Colonel Fyler Publ by PLH
The Barnet Book of Photography - A series of practical articles from Abney, Horsley Hinton, Bothamley, Ethelbert Henry and other well known photographers.
The Primus Lanternist Pocket Book edited by W F Butcher, Published by Percy Lund, London.
Light Dumb Bells with hints of athletic training.Publ PLH
The Gospels in North Africa by Rutherfurd and Glenny Publ by PLH
Shall we understand the bible? Lectures to Sunday school teachers and others. By Rev Thomas Rhondda Williams. Pastor of Greenfield Congressional Church. A church Percy had close connections with. Publ PLH
Thought Forms by Annie Besant and C W Leadbeater. Printed by PLH
Chemistry for Photographers by Chas F Townsend publ by Dawbarn and Ward, 6 Farringdon Ave E.C.
1898
How to make lantern slides by S L Coulthrost. Publ by Dawbarn and Ward
1898
Glass Blowing and Working by Thomas Bolas. Publ Dawbarn and Ward
The Photo Miniature from 1899 by John A Tennant Publ Tennant and Ward (US) and Dawbarn and Ward (London)
From 1900
Useful Art Series
Edited by HSW
1901 Finishing the Negative by George Edward Brown Publ Dawbarn and Ward
From Oct 1901
The Woodworker
From 1901
The Playgoer
An Index of Standard Photograms Arranged by HSW 1901 onwards
Handbook of Pyrography by Mrs Maude Maud Publ by Dawbarn and Ward
Verses and translations by Tom Turner. 16 pp.
Published by Privately Printed by PLH
1902
1902
Grangerising or extra Illustration by HSW
1903
Profitable Hobbies by HSW
1903
The figures, facts and formulae of photography and guide to their practical use by HSW Publ by Dawbarn and Ward
1903
Hand Camera Photography by Walter Kilbey. Publ Dawbarn and Ward
The Photographic Picture Postcard for personal use and for profit by E J Wall and HSW
1905
Photography and the Press by HSW and CWW
Photography for novices. The primus handbook. by Percy Lund, Publ PLH
Echoes by Tom Turner. 12 pp. Published by Privatey Printed by PLH
Present day cricket for youths by W.P. Strickland publ by PLH
1903
A Little Sheaf of verse by Tom Turner. 10 pp. Published by Privately printed by PLH
Studies in the Bhagavad Gita: The Yogas of Action and Occultism by The Dreamer. Publ Percy Lund
I and my neighbour : The patriot's temperance panoply. A daily reading book compiled by Marion I Mitchell. Publ PLH
1904
1905
1906
1907
1909
1910
1915
1917
The Ensign Handbook
The Jackdaw 1904-05 Satirical magazine with some content relating to the 1904 Bradford exhibition.
Illustrated Rambles from Hipperholme to Tong by James Parker. Publ PLH
Does Science Destroy Religion by Thomas Rhondda Williams Publ PLH
written down by M C Printed by PL
The Evangel of the new theology/sermons.by Thomas Rhondda Williams Publ PLH
A day with the poet Tennyson printed by PLH
In the Open Country - The work of Lucy E Kemp-Welch. Printed by PLH
Artistic Landscape Photography by A H Wall. The copy available online was signed by HSW in 1906, as it was given by him as a prize in a competition run by The Photogram
The London Lectures by Annie Besant, President of the Theosophical Society. City Agents PLH Essential reading for those wanting to understand the meaning of Theosophy.
The new theology and exposition by Rev T Rhondda Williams. Publ PLH
A Criticism of the new theology by Rev T Rhondda Williams Publ PLH
The Royal Eye and Ear Hospital 1857 - 1907 Photographed, Engraved and Printed by PLH Bradford, London and Manchester.
H P Blavatsky - an outline of her life. By Herbert Whyte. Published by PLH She was co-founder of the Theosophical Society.
Photographic Lenses a Simple Treatise by Conrad Beck 5th ed 320p Publ PLH . British Library Ref X.629/8215 BLL01004036311
Line Photo Engraving By William Gamble. F.O.S. F.R.P.S Publ PLH 328p British Library ref 08909.bb.17 BLL01001358415
The Wool Record. Weekly report of wool sales, prices and quotations posted out to subscribers. Printed by PLH Drummond Road
In the Heart of the Holy Grail by James Leith Macbeth Bain (Brother James) Publ by PLH
The Seeker, a quarterly publication edited by Percy Lund and W L Wilmhurst from Huddersfield.
Three Colour Photography by Arthur Von Hubl. Originally published in 1897. Later translated from German to English and Published in 1915 by PLH
1921
Pelican Pie - A New ration. The official organ of the West Riding Division. A Light hearted Magazine for the troops
History of the Sixth Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment in two volumes by Tempest and Gregory. Publ PLH
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