Author: Meyer, H.L.
Title: Coloured Illustrations of British Birds, and their Eggs. Vol. I-VII
Description: G.W. Nickisson / Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. 1842-1850 iv, 230; iv, 233, [1]; iv, 240; iv, 215, [1]; iv, 192; iv, 185; viii, 206, 425 hand-col plates (322 birds, 103 eggs), 7 plain plates, title vignettes. . HB. 7 vols, 8vo, late 19 century, full polished calf, dec. gilt border to boards and turn-ins, raised bands to spines, gilt tooling to compartments, leather title pieces, marbled endpapers, aeg. Some foxing/spotting to endpapers/prelims and occasionally elsewhere, but mostly clean. Small perforation to one leaf with loss of a few letters of text. Duplicated typescript list of Plates of eggs tipped in at rear of each volume. Bookplates of James S. North, from a design by C. Haldane Macfall dated 1901. A fine set.. First octavo edition, complete in 7 volumes. Fine hand-coloured plates of birds (322) and eggs (103). Also with cancel of plate facing p. 50 in Vol. II.Nissen IVB 628..

Keywords: ABA12-2022; Birds; Britain; Hand-coloured plates


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