Game Birds and Wild-Fowl of Great Britain and Ireland

Description:

First edition. Illustrated with colour plates, illustrating fifty-eight species. In a review of this work by Herbert Maxwell, he states "Mr. Thorburn is without a peer, one may almost say without a rival, in the delineation of birds. He succeeds in combining fidelity of detail with breadth of handling which must satisfy at once the most scrupulous ornithologist and the most fastidious art critic". Nature 113, 1924.

Condition

Folio (382x280mm), orig. red cloth, gilt-ruled border to upper board, some wear to corners and board edges, a few slight marks, spine faded, rubbed and lightly scuffed. Top edge gilt. Foxing to prelims, occasionally elsewhere. Plates clean and bright. Good.