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[EDISON, Thomas Alva] DICKSON, W.K.L. & Antonia.

The Life & Inventions of Thomas Alva Edison.

The Life & Inventions of Thomas Alva Edison.

With 200 Illustrations by W.K.L. Dickson, R.F. Outcalt, L. Bauhan, and J. Ricalton.

Stock Code 115241

London, Chatto & Windus, 1894

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By the inventor of the kinetoscope. First edition and a finely bound copy of this lavishly illustrated biography of Thomas Edison. The author was film pioneer William Kennedy Laurie Dickson (1860-1935) the man who, working under Edison at Menlo Park, invented the Kinetoscope, an early motion picture camera, and the Kinetograph motion picture camera.

First edition; large 8vo (27 x 18.5 cm); portrait frontispiece from photograph and monochrome illustrations throughout, a handful of leaves towards the rear unopened, endpapers spotted and occasional small spots to contents but overall clean; contemporary brown half morocco, spines gilt in compartments, marbled sides and endpapers, top edge gilt, binding a little rubbed and scuffed, a very good copy; 362pp.

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