Author: MILLAIS John Guille
Title: The Natural History of the British Surface-Feeding Ducks. [Illustrated by Archibald Thorburn and the Author]. 600 COPIES WERE PRINTED; NEAR FINE COPY
Description: Longmans Green & Co.,, 1902. Roy. 4to., First Edition, LARGE PAPER, with coloured frontispiece (original tisue guard present), illustrated and printed titles, printed title in red and black, 41 fine coloured plates (8 by Thorburn, 33 by Millais; all original tissue guards present), 6 fine plates in photogravure (all original tissue guards present), and 25 plates in monochrome; original two-tone green cloth, boards in olive, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, darker green back framed and lettered in gilt, gil top, uncut, a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 600 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 423). Anker 340; Mullens & Swann, p.406; Wood, p.464.

Keywords: natural history, birds, ornithology, ducks, surface-feeding ducks, millais, john guille millais, fine bird books


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