This was a well-received book that was published simultaneously in New York, London and Toronto. Anderson, an English author, thoroughly covered creative photography and its technical side in the text.

The 12 rich, hand-pulled photogravures were all by leading pictorialists of the time; Alvin Langdon Coburn, F. Holland Day, Baron Adolf De Meyer, Frank Eugene, Gertrude Käesebier, George H. Seeley, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz and Clarence H. White. Coburn who characteristically, etched his own plates, consulted with the publisher and oversaw the quality of all the photogravures.

Stanley Paul & Co., London, 1910. 1st edition. Hardcover Well-illustrated 8vo, 360 pp. Includes four photogravures by Alvin Langdon Coburn and one by each of the following: George H. Seeley (from a platinotype), Gertrude Kaesebier (from a platinotype), Frank Eugene (from a platinotype), Edward Steichen (from a print) and Baron de Meyer (from a platinotype).