Author: MILLAIS John Guille
Title: British Diving Ducks. With Plates by Archibald Thorburn, O. Murray Dixon, H. Groenvold and the Author. 450 COPIES WERE PRINTED; NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING
Description: Longmans Green & Co.,, 1913. 2 vols., folio, First Edition, with coloured frontispieces (original tisue guards present), titles in red and black, 37 fine coloured plates (all original tissue guards present) and 35 fine plates in photogravure (all original tissue guards present); original burgundy buckram, upper boards and backstrips lettered in gilt, gilt tops, uncut, upper boards faintly faded at extreme upper edge else a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 450 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 118). A splendid copy of this magnificent example of Millais's bird artistry. SETS IN THE PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL BUCKRAM IN THIS CONDITION ARE RARE. Anker, 342; Mullens & Swann, p.406; Tate, p.235.

Keywords: natural history, birds, ornithology, ducks, diving ducks, millais, john guille millais, thorburn, archibald thorburn, groenvold, fine bird books


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