Author: MILLAIS John Guille
Title: The Natural History of British Game Birds. With Illustrations by Archibald Thorburn and J.G. Millais. 550 COPIES WERE PRINTED; NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING
Description: Longmans Green & Co.,, 1909. Folio, First Edition, with coloured frontispiece (original tisue guard present), title in red and black, 17 fine coloured plates (all original tissue guards present), 17 fine plates in photogravure (all original tissue guards present) and 2 illustrations in the text; original burgundy cloth, upper board ruled and lettered in gilt, red buckram back lettered in gilt, gilt top, uncut, backstrip lightly sunned else a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 550 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 494). A splendid copy of this magnificent example of Millais's bird artistry. SETS IN THE PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL BINDING IN THIS CONDITION ARE RARE. 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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