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Game Birds and Shooting Sketches. Illustrating the Habits Modes of Capture Stages of Plumage and the Hybrids and Varieties which occur amongst them. NEAR FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL HALF MOROCCO
189213068Henry Sotheran 1892. Folio First Edition with portrait frontispiece of Bewick; original guard present 16 fine coloured plates all original guards present 18 plates in autotype all original guards present and 30 wood-engraved illustrations by the author and George Lodge in the text neat contemporary signature on front paste-down; original red straight-grained half morocco red coarse-grain cloth sides blocked and lettered in gilt gilt back gilt top blue-grey endpapers uncut joints and corners very faintly rubbed else a near fine crisp copy. Bright copy of Millais' well-known monograph on the four primary species: Capercaillie Blackgame Grouse and Ptarmigan. A number of the text-illustrations are by George Lodge. Freeman 2583; Jackson p.25; Mullens & Swann p.405; Tate p.247. Henry Sotheran, hardcover
Island Books · Royaume-Uni840,00 £GB≈ 959,11 €
