Macpherson Rev H a Stuart Wortley a J (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Green 1986 hardcover facsimile of the 1895 Longmans, Green and Co. edition, in VG condition: slight handling, owner's bookplate and slight removed sticker residue inside the front cover, slight pencil erasures on the second front endpaper, otherwise unmarked. 265 pages. [1.2 lbs]. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Second Edition. Some freckling to pages, tear to top rear external hinge, fraying to top and bottom of spine, slightly. Some rubbing to spine and some wear to corners. Blank bookplate to front pastedown.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1986 Edition without Jacket on green cloth - collectable - will send out 1 st class post.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. A Thorburn (illustrator). 2nd Edition. Beneath the title The Pheasant, are three sub-titles: "Natural History, "Shooting" and "Cookery". First published in 1895, re-issued in 1986 by Ashford Press Publishing, Southampton. Very nice neat and spotless book in clear neat cover. Excellent condition, and still an excellent guide to all aspects of the bird.

Condition: Good. First edition (hardback). 12mo (20cm by 13cm), viii, 293pp, 24pp catalogue. 12 plates, text illustrations. Original decorated grey/brown cloth, gilt titling to the spine. The binding is lightly rubbed and bumed, and there is some light foxing to the edges of the text block; overall, this book is in good to very good condition.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Hardback, decorative cloth. 265pp. Frontis. Illus. New impression 1909. Some pages unopened to top edges. Binding a little grubby and worn. Some spotting to edges. A pleasing copy. (r8).

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. A. Thorburn and Stuart-Wortley (illustrator). First Edition. Old pencil price on verso of flyleaf, vintage prior owner pencil name, address and/or date on half-title page and margin of contents page. Overall very good, tight copy, original endsheets, no restoration. Some soiling to pictorial cloth, some fading along spine, corners softened. Nicely illustrated with b&w drawings. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1893. Very Good+. Clean tan cloth boards with brown illustration, red lettering on the cover, red, gold and brown lettering on spine. 1893 on title page. No fraying or fading; extremely light soiling. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Clean black endpapers. Beautifully penned previous owner inscription on back of front free endpaper. Wonderful book on the partridge with the following three sections: Natural History of the Partridge, by the Rev. H. A. MacPherson; Shooting, by A. J. Suart-Wortley, and Cookery, by George Saintsbury. With illustrations by A. J. Stuart-Wortley, A. Thorburn, and C. Whymper, including frontispiece with tissue guard. 276 pages + ads for Badminton Library and other sporting books and 32pp undated publisher's catalog at rear. From the "Fur and Feather Series" edited by Alfred E. T. Watson.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition. Octavo. Original tan cloth over boards, ink decorated at front cover and spine, gilt lettering at spine, black end papers, illustrated. Pretaining to Natural History, Shooting, and Cookery. Very good, spine and outter edges of covers slightly darkened, light edge wear, spine ends and corners bumped, pages slightly agetoned, previous owner's signature at title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition. Photograph available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1894 TRUE FIRST EDITION. 293 pages + 2 publishers' catalogues. Illustrated front cover, spine and rear are extremely clean and undamaged. Book is very tight. Pages are clean and unmarked apart from some light browning. All 13 illustrations are present plus drawings in the text. Former owner names on front endpaper verso, one dated 7 August 1894. Exceptional condition - very good to near fine.

Publishers Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. A.J.Stuart-Wortley, A Thorburn and C. Whymper (illustrator). 3rd Edition. 276 pages, with a vignette on the title and 11 full page plates. Text divided into three sections. The Natural History by Rev. H.A.Macpherson. Shooting by A.J.Stuart-Wortley and Cookery by George Saintsbury. Originally the book had several uncut pages and someone has used a heavy hand when splitting them, otherwise very good. Size: 195x135mm.

pp. vi, (ii), 276, 24 Catalogue. Frontispiece, title vignette, 10 monochrome plates, 13 text diagrams. Publisher's pictorial cloth of the FUR, FEATHER & FIN series, scattered foxing, occasional marginal mark, very good copy. *I also have other titles in this series - SALMON : RABBIT : GROUSE : PHEASANT : TROUT : RED DEER : HARE : SNIPE & WOODCOCK. All in the pictorial cloth of the series, all illustrated, all with a section on COOKERY. Please ask for prices and detailed description.