KEARTON, RICHARD (1862-1928) / KEARTON, CHERRY (1871-1940) . - Kearton's Nature Pictures Beautifully Reproduced In Photogravure, Colour, and Black and White from photographs By Richard and Cherry Kearton.London: Cassell And Company, Limited, 1910 . 0. Deluxe half leather binding. First edition. 30cm x 23.0cm x 3.3cm. Matching black leather spine and corners over green buckram covered bords. Each spine 5 raised bands, gilt volume number and original red leather title label: "Keartons' Nature Pictures". Vol. I. : pp.6./pp.96 . Vol. II. :10pp./pp.97-192 . With a coloured frontis to each volume, plus a further 94 plates. A very good matching set. ** "Richard Kearton FZS, FRPS (2 January 1862 – 8 February 1928) and Cherry Kearton (8 July 1871 – 27 September 1940), brothers, were a pair of British naturalists and some of the world's earliest wildlife photographers. They developed innovative methods to photograph animals in the wild and in 1895 published the first natural history book to be entirely illustrated by wild photographs. Richard was a made a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London and Royal Photographic Society. Cherry later became a wildlife and news filmmaker, and friend to Theodore Roosevelt. The Royal Geographical Society created the Cherry Kearton Medal and Award in his honour." - See Wikipedia.
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