[First Edition] Game Birds and Shooting-Sketches Illustraing the habits, modes of capture, stages of plumage and the Hybrids and Varieties which

[First Edition] Game Birds and Shooting-Sketches Illustraing the habits, modes of capture, stages of plumage and the Hybrids and Varieties which
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xii, 72, portrait frontis of Thomas Bewick, 16 col plates, 18 autotype plates, numerous text woodcuts.
.
HB.
Large 4to (400x310mm), original red straight-grained half morocco, rubbed to spine ends and corners, minor wear, gt title to front board and spine.
Light spotting to bottom edge.
Top edge gilt.
Some scattered foxing.
Very good.
From the library of Lloyd, 4th Lord Kenyon (1864-1927), Baron of Gredington, with his bookplate.
First edition.
Covers the four main game bird species: Capercaillie, Blackgame, Grouse and Ptarmigan.
Fine chromolithographic plates printed by W.
Greve, Berlin.
Some text illustrations by George Lodge.
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.
405; Nissen IVB 634.

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