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Title: BOOK ABOUT BIRDS
Description: London, Religious Tract Society 1860 approx. chromolithographic plates (6) by Kronheim + black and white vignette to titlepage + 3 text engravings. . 182x137mm purple blindstamped and gilt pictorial cloth (spine and edgees faded) iv + 68pp R.McLean Victorian Book Design p 199. Some mainly marginal damp marking. The yellow endpapers damp marked and with binder's ticket of Key & Whiting. In all a neat, clean, tight copy of the second version "showing a moew sophisticated version of exactly the same subject [as] in the first edition" R.mcLean p199 [illustration]

Keywords: illustrated children's animal book


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