Rev C W Shepherd (6 results)

Paperback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. London: R. H. Porter, 1907, 465p including Index. First Edition, illustrated with nine plates including a b&w photo as frontispiece & 8 color plates by J. Smit. At the time of the books printing there were 320 species are recognised, and devided into the following order: Residents, Regular Summer Visitors, Regular Winter Visitors, Occasional Visitors, Accidental Visitors Introduced & Extinct. Green cloth with gilt spine title, top edge gilt, page edges untrimmed. A Very Good copy with some light wear, some rubbing at the spine edges, previous owners bookplate, toning of the ffep, half-title page and back of frontispiece, also the rear free endpaper & the two prior pages, light age-toning of most of book, all plates Very Good. A Clean Tight Copy See Photos. J. Smit (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, i-xxix, 465 pp, photographic frontispiece, 8 hand - coloured plates of birds by Joseph Smit, map of the county. Original green grained cloth, top edge gilt, some light wear to the extremities but a good firm copy, internally very clean. It is generally recorded that only 300 copies were printed. Mullens and Swann describe the work as "a county avifauna of considerable extent and completeness", however it was somewhat overshadowed by Ticehurst's major work "A History of the Birds of Kent" published in 1909. It remains one of the most attractive county avifaunas with lovely coloured plates by Smit. Joseph Smit (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. First Edition. 465pp. HARDCOVER. Privately-owned copy. Described as Good + due to a few caveats: Bright gilt titling to spine & gilt dust guard to top edge. Green cloth bright & clean other than 3 tiny marks. 2" vertical split to base of spine which has been repaired. Binding remains secure with occasional slt. hinge exposure. Appears little used. Light browning apparent to endpapers at each end. Internally bright & clean without foxing. The book is complete, and all plates & map are present. Overall, a very tidy privately owned copy. Size: 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" tall. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition, 8vo. xix + 465 pp., with a photo frontis and 8 hand-coloured lithographic plates and a coloured folding map. Original cloth, gilt. Top edge gilt. Some foxing on the half title and the corresponding leaf at the rear of the book, which leads me to think that this sheet of paper is inferior to that used for the text and plates, as the book is otherwise clean and tidy. A very good copy. The fine plates for this nicely produced book are by the famous bird artist J. Smit and are the last of their kind; a twentieth century survivor of the nineteenth century hand-finished bird book. Scarce work of county avifauna of which only 300 copies were printed. KENT BIRDS ILLUSTRATED KENT WILD ANIMALS NON-FICTION NATURAL HISTORY UK KENT.…

Condition: Fine. 9 plates, map, 8 of the plates fine hand coloured lithographs by Smit, pp.465, ONLY 300 COPIES PUBLISHED. 8vo Size: 8vo.