AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY. A Comprehensive Survey of its Practice & Development. Signed Presentation Copy.

25.5x19cm. First edition. ppXVI+236 with monochrome photo frontispiece, 90 plates of monochrome photo illustrations and figures, in-text figures, and index. Original sky blue cloth, backstrip and front cover titles in gilt, front cover illustration in gilt and black. Backstrip very slightly faded, and slightly rubbed at head and foot. Tips of outer corners of covers slightly rubbed, and slightly bumped and/or curled. No dust jacket. Front flyleaf with neat inscription "For Sir Owen Williams, these many years afterwards, and mainly because of the Plate facing page 157. Cordially - Clarence Winchester", the plate referred to comprising four aerial views recording stages in the construction of the British Empire Exhibition buildings and stadium between May 1922 and June 1924. (Owen Williams 1890-1969: Civil Engineer and Architect, Britain's most significant innovator in the early use of structural concrete and pioneer in the development of concrete architecture, appointed chief consulting civil engineer to the British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, in 1923.) Near FINE copy. Heavy item, overseas shipping at cost.…