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Livres anciens et modernes

OLNEY, Peter J.S.

The Wildfowl Paintings of Henry Jones

Threshold/Harrap, 1987

360,00 €

Govi Libreria Antiquaria

(Modena, Italie)

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Détails

Année
1987
Lieu d'édition
London
Auteur
OLNEY, Peter J.S.
Éditeurs
Threshold/Harrap
Thème
Ottocento e Novecento
Etat de conservation
En bonne condition
Langues
Italien
Reliure
Couverture rigide
Condition
Ancien

Description

340x435 mm. 272 pp., frontispiece and 60 color plates tipped-in. Publisher's original half blue morocco and blue cloth, gilt titling to spine. Limited edition printed in 350 copies signed by the author. This is copy no. 322. A very good copy. First edition. After a career in the army, Henry Jones (1838-1921) returned to Welling, near Woolwich, in 1881 and seems to have become a habitué of the bird room at the British Museum of Natural History in Kensington. He bequeathed his sketchbooks to the Zoological Society of London.