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MORRIS, Beverly R.

A History of British Birds [with] British Game Birds and Wildfowl.

A History of British Birds [with] British Game Birds and Wildfowl.

Revised, corrected, and enlarged. With three hundred and ninety-four plates coloured by hand. [British Game Birds] revised and corrected by W.B. Tegetmeier. With sixty large plates coloured by hand.

Stock Code 115270

London, John C. Nimmo, 1895-1897.

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An attractive set of these two ornithological classics, the fourth and fifth edition, respectively, in the decorative publisher's bindings and with hand-coloured plates.

Fourth edition of British Birds, fifth edition of Game Birds; 8 vols, 4to; hand-coloured frontispiece and 454 plates, contemporary bookplate of Thomas Aitken and pencilled gift inscriptions dated 1926, occasional light spotting to contents and more heavily to edges of the text blocks; original brown cloth blocked in gilt with birds designs to the upper boards, brown coated endpapers, spines rolled, some wear at the extremities, primarily the spine ends, a very good set.

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