Early History of Composite Photography Small volume compiled by Francis Galton, comprised of the following bound offprints and images: Board bearing 5 images of likenesses of Napoleon, plus the resultant composite image; 1878. Francis Galton, Composite Portraits, (London: Harrison & Sons, 1878). Francis Galton, Generic Images, with autotype illustrations; 1879. Francis Galton, "Composite Portraiture", Journal and Transactions of the Photographic Society of Great Britain, Vol V No 9, (1881). Francis Galton, F A Mahomed, "An Inquiry into the Physiognomy of Phthisis by the Methods of Composite Portraiture", (1882). 1878-1882