The Mute Swan in England Its History and the Ancient Custom of Swan Keeping by Ticehurst N F (12 results)

Crown quarto. White cloth, gilt. xiv +136 pp.32 plates, 31 line and 3 half tone illustrations. Cloth sl. foxed and marked to edges. Internally very clean.

Hard covers. Condition: V.g. No Jacket. 1st edition. Cover spotted; bookplate and owner's signature on ffep. Weight: 1 Language: English.

White Gilt Cloth. Condition: Good. First Edition. The Swan owes its unique interest not only to its manifest beauty and dignity but to its status in Britain as a royal Bird, The Cygnus olor was certainly domesticated by the 12th century, the swan was kept for distinction, as a traditional gift for food and profit, illustrated with swan marks some in colour. Size: Octavo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Natural History & Resources; Britain/UK; 1950s; Inventory No: 43321.

tall 8vo, xiv, 133pp, 31 b/w plates, occasional light scattered spotting to extreme fore-edges and endpapers, orig. cloth gilt. A near fine copy in bright dustwrapper which has one very small closed nick else near fine.

tall 8vo, xiv, 133pp, 31 b/w plates, orig. cloth gilt. A fine copy in a bright dustwrapper which has a few very small closed nicks else VG+.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition :. Royal octovo hardcover, tight binding, unmarked pages, covers unworn, endpapers have tan spots, else VG+++++ in similar DJ, now in clear mylar jacket protector--All in slipcase! Very nice copy; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A fascinating work on the history of the mute swan and its status within Britain. The first edition with the original dust jacket. This book explores the history of the mute swan in Britain. Beginning in the twelfth century it explores the role of swans within society. Swans became symbols of wealth and opulence. Accompanied by thirty one plates and one folding plate. These plates show the importance of the mute swan within British history. The plates visually show swan identification. the folding plate is a copy of the order of the swan from Towneley Swan Roll written in 1622. Collated complete. Bound in publisher's cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally smart. Damp staining to the spine of the dust wrapper but generally bright and clean. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. All plates clean. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Ediion. First printing of the first edition (stated). Illustrated. A very good copy with some age spotting to the page edges and some pages in a very good dust jacket with a couple of chips to the front cover. BX39.

Hardcover. 133pp., illus. Very good plus condition with text clean and binding sound in a very good lightly chipped dust jacket which is now in a clear protective mylar sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated (illustrator). First Edition. very good+ hardcover in very good dustjacket; several swan articles laid in; For their protection I cover all dustjackets with a new clear mylar protector; SATISFACTION GUARANTEED; ALL ORDERS SHIPPED WITH DELIVERY CONFIRMATION; Size: 7 x 10". Previous Owner Signature.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. Ownership bookplate and signature of noted American psychologist and anthropologist Henry Guze, (a founder of the American Academy of Psychotherapists, the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, and co-founder of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex) on the front fly else fine in attractive near fine dustwrapper with remnants of an old tape repair.

Cloth w/DJ. Condition: VG/FR. Black & White Illustrations (illustrator). London, UK: Cleaver-Hume Press, Ltd. VG/FR. 1957. Cloth w/DJ. With 31 plates, some in two-color devoted to illustrating swan marks. Includes appendices of division of the brood; swan-houses and swan-pits, upping totals, glossary, index of personal names and subjects. . 8vo., 133 pp., Gently bumped, ownership in pencil; dj frayed and torn with stains, yellowed .