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Rare and modern books

Millais John Guille

British Diving Ducks. With Plates by Archibald Thorburn, O. Murray Dixon, H. Groenvold and the Author. 450 COPIES WERE PRINTED; NEAR FINE COPY IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING

Longmans Green & Co., 1913

1897.50 €

Island Books

(Devon, United Kingdom)

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Year of publication
1913
Author
Millais John Guille
Publishers
Longmans Green & Co.
Keyword
natural history, birds, ornithology, ducks, diving ducks, millais, john guille millais, thorburn, archibald thorburn, groenvold, fine bird books
Languages
English

Description

2 vols., folio, First Edition, with coloured frontispieces (original tisue guards present), titles in red and black, 37 fine coloured plates (all original tissue guards present) and 35 fine plates in photogravure (all original tissue guards present); original burgundy buckram, upper boards and backstrips lettered in gilt, gilt tops, uncut, upper boards faintly faded at extreme upper edge else a near fine copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 450 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 118). A splendid copy of this magnificent example of Millais's bird artistry. SETS IN THE PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL BUCKRAM IN THIS CONDITION ARE RARE. Anker, 342; Mullens & Swann, p.406; Tate, p.235.