THE BIRDS OF THE LIVERPOOL AREA [ Association Copy from the Library of Eric Hosking and Presented with card from Eric Hardy]

Hardy, Eric

Published by T. Buncle & Co., Arbroath, 1941

About this Item

This copy was presented to Eric Hosking by the author with a card inserted with the author's name and address in print. 279 pages. Original dust jacket very good , some marks and dust soiling, now protected in a sleeve. Green cloth binding with gilt lettering to the spine, near fine with just a little rubbing to corners. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions, attractive bookplate belonging to Eric Hosking on the front pastedown, the authors card slipped in, no marking. A very good clean copy wih an interesting provenance. [From the library of Eric Hosking, OBE, Hon FRPS, FBIPP (1909-1991) was widely acknowledged as one of the world's most eminent natural history photographers, "Perhaps the most famous bird photographer ever to have lived" (Gemma Padley). He was pioneering and developed new techniques, especially the use of flash photography and automatic shutter release technology, which enabled him to photograph birds at night and freeze birds in flight for the first time. Famously, when just 28 he lost an eye to a tawny owl while climbing up to a hide in rural Wales, the event which inspired the ingeneous title of his autobiography "An Eye for a Bird", 1970. Over his exceptionally long career he photographed over 1,800 species, and his pictures have appeared in some 1,000 books, including the popular New Naturalist series, of which he was photographic editor. Hosking was not only a photographer of birds but also a highly knowledgeable ornithologist.] Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # 035962

Bibliographic Details

Title: THE BIRDS OF THE LIVERPOOL AREA [ ...

Publisher: T. Buncle & Co., Arbroath

Publication Date: 1941

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Edition: First Edition.

Book Type: Book