However, Atkins' first book using the technique didn't show leaves such as those we see in today's Google Doodle. Instead this was Photographs of British Algae, in 1843, a privately published collection with handwritten captions to the individually produced cyanotypes.
It was her mentor - and the inventor of the cyanotype process - English astronomer Sir John Herschel, who produced the first commercially published book illustrated with photographs, The Pencil of Nature, in 1844.