The Natural History of British Game Birds
- Collection : A fine ornithological and natural history library
- Publisher : Longmans, Green and Co.
- Published In : London
- Illustrations : 18 col+18 b/w plates (17 photogravures)
Description:
Large paper edition limited to 550 copies. This is copy No. 271. Fine colour and black-and-white plates illustrated by Archibald Thorburn and J.G. Millais. John Guille Millais (1865-1931) was one of the most respected of British ornithologists and bird artists, renowned for his portraiture of wildfowl and game birds. He was the son of pre-Raphaelite painter, John Everett Millais and Effie Gray.
Mullens & Swann p. 406; Nissen IVB 636.
Condition
Folio (420x320mm), original cloth, minor rubbing, gilt title, spine faded. Top edge gilt. Endpapers lightly browned; some scattered foxing, heavier to one page. Very good. From the library of Lloyd, 4th lord Kenyon (1864 - 1927), Baron of Gredington, with his bookplates.
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