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Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd. 1926. First Edition, small 8vo, 62pp., portrait frontis., of Logie Baird, 11 plates, orig. printed boards, dust wrapper slightly chipped and soiled but a very nice copy. The rare first edition of this most influential work, it was the first book to be solely devoted to the subject of Television. Describing the first technical problems experienced by those who conducted early experiments (including Szczepanik, Rosing, Mihaly and Logie Baird). Contains the first photograph ever taken by Television in 1926. |