London, etc.: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., 1926. First edition. 12mo. 62 pp. Illustrated with portrait frontispiece, five photographic plates, and six full-page diagrams. Publisher's stiff yellow wrappers; in rare pictorial dust-jacket, scattered light soiling; book-plate of Robin de Beaumont laid-in.

First edition of the first book printed in English on the television. While Dinsdale discusses his own ideas, the work mainly focuses on the work of Scottish engineer John Logie Baird, who was the first to successfully transfer recognizable human faces between two televisions.

Fine copy in the rare publisher's dust jacket.

Lot also includes two other early works on television: Television For Everyman by F.W. Kellaway (New York: John Crowther, ca. 1944), and Year One: An Account of the First Year of Operation of an Independent Television Company in England (London: Granada, 1958), from the Thames Television Technical Library (with their ink stamp on front free endpaper).