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

Light on the Path and Karma

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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