Author: Herrick, Francis Hobart
Title: Audubon the Naturalist: A History of His Life and Time
Description: New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1917. Hardbound. Blue cloth with gilt embossed title and medallion. 2 Volumes: Vol. 1: lx, [2], 451 pp. 67 bw illustrations. Vol. 2: xiii, [3], 494 pp. 49 bw plates. A solid, fresh and pretty clean, tight set of this hard-to-find set. Top edge is gilt. Looks great of the shelf, each binding is tight. Good, wear evident along spine with some fading to the gilt titles and signs of lengthwise creasing on the spine of Volume 1, which has a cracked inner front hinge, while the cover is still firm on the textblock. Liught dampstain discoloration in lower right corner of volume 2 front cover, textblock has no staining. Overall a very acceptable reading set and does not look unattractive on the shelf.

Keywords: Natural History Art ; Audubon, John James ; ;


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