British Birds. With Eighty Plates in Colour, Showing Over Four Hundred Species. In Four Volumes.
Printed in the UK. Longmans, Green, and Co., 1915. First edition. Cloth over boards. Hardcover cloth ( red) over boards. 4to. Pagination: volume I - viii, 143 pp; volume II - vi, 72 pp; volume III - vi, 87 pp: volume IV - vii, 107 pp. Illustration: each volume is illustrated with 20 full colour, full-page plates of birds created by Scottish artist Archibald Thorburn, who specialized in wildlife painting. Original publisher's cloth. Uniform bindings. Title, author, volume number and an ornament gilt stamped on the spine. Single rule gilt border on front and back boards. Text blocks of all volumes in similar condition: slight age browning with mild foxing throughout. Tissue guarded plates are bright and vibrant. Spines are sunned. Boards are shelf worn, bumped in the corners, cracked slightly in the hinges, and have some small marks on the front and back. Complete set. Good condition overall. Good. Item #67285
Price: $1,100.00