[This subject, which has already been touched upon in our columns, has
not yet received the attention it deserves. We have now before us a
photographic copy of a folio page of a MS. of the fourteenth or
fifteenth century, on which are inscribed a number of charters; and,
although the copy is reduced so as to be but about 2 inches high and 1½
broad, it is perfectly legible; and the whole of the contractions are
as distinct as if the original vellum was before us.]
_Fox Talbot's Patents._--Would the Editor of "N. & Q." have the kindness to
inform A. B. whether a photograph (portrait), taken from a _black cutting_
made by an amateur, and inserted in a published work, would infringe on Mr.
F. Talbot's patent? Also, whether collodion portraits come within his
patent, as it was understood it could only apply to the _paper process_?
(The cutting would be taken on albumenised paper.)
A. B. would also be glad to know _where_ Towgood of St. Neot's _positive_
paper can be procured, and the price?