23 Nov 2010
13:00 GMT
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Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs
Back to auction 17860
Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs
Back to auction 17860
BAIRD and TELEVISION
DINSDALE (ALFRED) Television, FIRST EDITION, JOHN LOGIE BAIRD'S COPY, signed ("John L. Baird") on front free endpaper, 12 plates (some photographic, including 4 featuring Baird and his apparatus, one shaved with loss to caption), a few gatherings working loose, contemporary red cloth, gilt stamped "Television. Alfred Dinsdale" on upper cover, 8vo, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1926
Sold for
£1,440
inc. premium
Footnotes
- A fine association copy, signed by John Logie Baird (1888-1946), the first person to produce televised pictures of objects in motion, and the central figure in Dinsdale's pioneering work on television. The position of the signature on the blank half-title, rather than the title or portrait frontispiece, suggests that this was Baird's own copy.
Category: Books / Books, Maps and Manuscripts
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