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

Eton & London: Ingalton and Drake; Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1868. First edition. Cloth. Good. 7.5" by 5.5". Not Stated. A smart first edition of this ornithological study of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire, a popular work written by the author at the age of sixteen. First edition. Attributed as the first ornithological field guide to use photographs as illustrations, this work contains a colour frontispiece and three colour plates. Collated complete. This study provides further detail on the natural history of Buckinghamshire and Berkshire. With chapters on residential birds, summer and winter visitors, spring and autumnal visitors, rare or accidental visitors, and more. Includes a detailed index. Written by Alexander William Maxwell Clark Kennedy, an English ornithologist, travel writer, and Captain of the Coldstream Guards. This was his first published work, written at the age of sixteen during his schooling at Eton. Bound by Burn & Co., Kirby Street. In the original blue… Read More

Eton/London: Ingalton and Drake/Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1868. . 8vo., pp.xv,232, uncut, recased with new endpapers, pictorial green cloth, gilt, pictorial spine, 4 hand-coloured mounted photographs, including frontispiece; pasted-in nameplate to front paste-down endpaper, toning to edges, and occasional light foxing, rubbing to extremities, with light loss to head and foot of original spine, a good+ copy.

London: Ingalton and Drake, Eton ; Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1868. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp xvi 232, With 4 MOUNTED, HAND-COLORED ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPHS OF BIRDS. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering to the spine, gilt vignette to the front board, light wear only, binding firm. Contents clean and tight, endpapers unmarked, a few spots on first few pages, plates with tissue guards, paper bright and fresh. A very scarce title..

Ingalton & Drake., 1868. 1st. Ed.. pp.xv, 232 with four original hand-coloured albumen photographs. 8vo. Bookplate of William Edwin Glegg (1879-1952) to front pastedown. Hardback. Only occasional minor foxing, o/w. contents fine. Original green cloth boards, spine professionally relaid, with gilt bird motif on front cover and spine, all in nr. fine condition. A very pleasing copy. Captain Clark Kennedy published this book whilst at Eton. The first bird book to be illustrated using photographs. William Edwin Glegg was a dedicated and well respected ornithologist. He was the author of �A History of the Birds of Essex� (1929), �A History of the Birds of Middlesex� (1935) and a good number of papers for the Essex Naturalist.

Ingalton & Drake., 1868. 1st. Ed.. pp.xv, 232 with four original hand-coloured albumen photographs. 8vo. Two pleasing bookplates. Hardback. Occasional minor foxing, o/w. contents fine. Original green cloth boards with bird designs in gilt on front cover and spine, all in nr. fine condition. A very pleasing copy indeed. Captain Clark Kennedy published this book whilst at Eton. The first bird book to be illustrated using photographs.

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… Read More

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.