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HardPress Publishing, 2012-01-10. Paperback. Good.

Eton / London: Ingalton and Drake / Simpkin, Marshall, 1868. Decorative Cloth. Fine. First Edition of apparently the first field guide to birds to use photographs as illustrations. 8vo: xiv,[2],232pp, with four hand-colored and varnished albumen photographs of stuffed birds mounted on heavy card stock. ("It was impossible at the time to photograph live birds due to the absence of the telephoto lens and extremely sensitive plates that would permit short exposures." Goldschmidt & Naef) Publisher's forest-green pebble-grained cloth, spine and upper cover with bird vignettes in gilt, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, chocolate coated end papers. A Fine, tight, square copy, clean, crisp text, the photographs vibrant, with deep, rich colors. Provenance: Book plate of Henry Neville Gladstone (third son of Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone). Binder's ticket of James Burn & Co., Kirby St., to rear paste-down. Gernsheim 436. Truthful Lens 96. Margolis & Moss 24. The author was only age 16 when he… Leer más

Eton; London: Ingaton and Drake; Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1868. Hardcover. Very Good. First ornithological book with photographs - 4 handcolored albumen photos. Green cloth boards are lightly soiled. Some wrinkling to the boards, rubbing and scuffing to corners and ends of spine. Interior is unmarked with scattered foxing throughout, except for previous owners' names on half title page. Beautiful color to the photographs. Gilt title on spine and bird illustration on front cover and spine are clear and bright with light rubbing. Binding is tight and square, although the inside hinge is beginning to crack.

Eton: Ingleton and Drake; London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1868. First edition of the first ornithological book illustrated with photographs, and published when the author was a mere sixteen years old; small 8vo, pp. xiv, [2], 232; four orig. hand-colored albumen prints of birds (stuffed specimens); orig. green cloth, gilt vignette on upper cover, gilt lettering and vignette on spine; expertly rebacked with old spine imperceptibly laid down; overall appearance is fine and bright. Truthful Lens 96: "It was impossible at this time to photograph live birds due to the absence of the telephoto lens and extremely light-sensitive plates that would permit short exposures. Muybridge [Animal Locomotion, 1887] was the first to photograph birds in flight. The author, perhaps also the photographer, is given the by-line "An Eton Boy"." Gernsheim 436.