Wild Nature's Ways
- Collection : A fine ornithological and natural history library
- Publisher : Cassell and Company
- Published In : London
- Illustrations : 200 b/w photos
Description:
First edition. With 200 illustrations taken direct from nature by Richard and Cherry Kearton. The brothers Richard (1862-1928) and Cherry Kearton (1871-1940) were some of the world's earliest wildlife photographers, who innovated methods to photograph animals in the wild, and published some of the first wildlife photography books and films.
Mullens & Swann p. 324.
Condition
8vo, orig. green cloth, gilt title to spine and front board, gilt vignette, top edge gilt. Some light foxing/spotting to endpapers, edges, and the verso of the frontis. Very good. Signed by both Richard and Cherry Kearton and with the bookplate of Rowland Ward (1848-1912) (probably presented to him by the Keartons). Ward was a British taxidermist, as well as publishing several natural history books. He was also a friend of the Keartons, and had prepared a cow hide for Richard Kearton, in which he could conceal himself with a camera when photographing birds (John Bevis (2016) The Keartons: Inventing Nature Photography).
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