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LILFORD, Thomas Littleton Powys (4th Baron, 1833-1896). Coloured Figures of the Birds of the British Islands. London: Taylor and Francis for R.H. Porter, 1885-1897.
7 volumes, 8° (250 x 172mm). Photogravure portrait of the author, 9pp. list of subscribers and 421 chromolithograph plates after Thorburn, Keulemans, Lodge and Foster, mounted on guards throughout, printed wrappers to 7 original parts bound in (one per volume). (Small ink mark to upper margin of text p.51 in vol.V.) Contemporary red half morocco gilt, spines in six compartments, lettered in two, gilt bird tool in others, t.e.g., by Birdsall of Northampton.
A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. Nissen IVB 563; Mullens & Swann p.354; Fine Bird Books p.91. (7)
7 volumes, 8° (250 x 172mm). Photogravure portrait of the author, 9pp. list of subscribers and 421 chromolithograph plates after Thorburn, Keulemans, Lodge and Foster, mounted on guards throughout, printed wrappers to 7 original parts bound in (one per volume). (Small ink mark to upper margin of text p.51 in vol.V.) Contemporary red half morocco gilt, spines in six compartments, lettered in two, gilt bird tool in others, t.e.g., by Birdsall of Northampton.
A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. Nissen IVB 563; Mullens & Swann p.354; Fine Bird Books p.91. (7)