found: His The photographer's idea book, c1985: t.p. (Richard Platt)
found: LC data base, 12-21-87 (hdg.: Platt, Richard)
found: BLAISE, Jan. 1994 (Platt, Richard, 1953- ; b. Apr. 13, Richard John Charles; see also x-ref. from Juan-Carlos, Ricardo, 1953- for work, Photographing the male)
found: Discovering Egyptians, 2004: t.p. (Richard Platt) BL AL sent 28 Sept. 2005
found: Contemporary Authors Online, viewed Oct. 11, 2005 (Richard Platt (born April 15, 1953) is the author of books for young readers and writes for multimedia projects; works include collaborations with Stephen Biesty on the Cross-Sections and Incredible series; began career as a photographer, then began writing "how to" books for photographers, then began writing for children; list of works)
found: Richard Platt, via WWW, Feb. 26, 2013 (British author, writing mostly informational books for children, and photographer; born in Northumberland)