This compiled volume features the first six issues (October through December, 1895) of Photographisches Centralblatt.  (Photographic Central Sheet or Photographic Journal)  At the time a technical photographic journal issued without photographic illustrations, (a few engravings appear occasionally) it was initially edited by Professor Fritz Schmidt, a lecturer and head of the Photographic Institute based at Karlsruhe Palace. (then part of the Karlsruhe Technische Hochschule and presently The University of Karlsruhe) The journal was published by Otto Nemnich of Karlsruhe.

The volume was formerly in the library of the Association of Friends of Photography in Nuremberg, (Verein von Freunden der Photographie Nürnberg) and features an example of a trimmed and pasted cardstock cover from one of the bi-monthly issues of journal.