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Love's Meinie. Lectures on Greek and English Birds. Vol. I

by Ruskin, John

Collection : A fine ornithological and natural history library
Publisher : George Allen
Published In : Orpington, Kent
Illustrations : 14 text figs

Description:

Three lectures given before the University of Oxford. Lecture I. The Robin (G. Allen, Keston, Kent, 1873); Lecture II. The Swallow (G. Allen, Keston, Kent, 1873); Lecture III. The Dabchicks (George Allen, Orpington, Kent, 1881). The third part includes an Appendix. title page and preliminaries for the whole work (Vol. I [all published]) were issued with the final part and are bound at rear. Page size of first two parts is sligthly smaller.

Freeman 3261.

Condition

8vo, cont. half morocco by Bumpus, spine with raised bands, gilt tooling to compartments, leather title piece, marbled boards and endpapers, teg. A little rubbing to extremities. Spine slightly faded. A few neat marginal pencil annotations. Very good.