Coloured figures of the birds of the British Islands.
Published by London, Porter, 1885-, 1897
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Mayfair Rare Books & Manuscripts Ltd, London, United KingdomMayfair Rare Books & Manuscripts Ltd
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Tall 8vo (250 x 170 mm), a fine uniform 7-volume set, bound in half brown morocco with large corners (by R.H. Porter, signed at first flyleaf), spines with raised bands, gilt in gold with double titles and fillets in compartments, golden upper edge in each volume, a very clean and well-preserved set, in excellent condition. Portrait of the author in photogravure at beginning of first volume, altogether 421 beautiful coloured plates in chromolithography after drawings by Foster, Lodge, Keulemans and Thorburn. Occasional, very light marginal foxing here and there, A FINE VERY CLEAN COPY WITHOUT UNDERLININGS OR MANUSCRIPT/PENCILLED NOTES IN THE TEXT. Sold together with this set, also the first edition of: Trevor-Battye, Aubyn (editor) - Lord Lilford on Birds. London, Hutchinson, 1903. Large 8vo, (25.5x19 cm), black half morocco, a fine copy. pp. xiii, (5 nn.), 312, with portrait and 12 b/w plates after Thorburn.First edition of "perhaps the finest and most perfect ornithological iconography" (Nissen), originally issued in 36 parts to subscribers. The author, 4th Baron Lilford (1833-1896) was a British aristocrat and ornithologist, and one of the eight founders of the British Ornithologists' Union in 1858, of which he was President from 1867 until his death. Radclyffe, Notes on Lord Lilford’s ‘Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands, "establish[ed] a new standard of excellence".…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Coloured figures of the birds of the British Islands.
- Author
- LILFORD, THOMAS LITTLETON POWYS
- Publisher
- London, Porter, 1885-
- Publication year
- 1897
- Condition
- Good
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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