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MORRIS, Francis Orpen. A History of British Birds, London: Groombridge, 1860-62, 6 volumes, large 8°, 358 plates coloured from woodblocks (last few leaves in vol. I detached, a few plates lightly spotted), original publisher's cloth gilt (head and tail of spines bumped), partly unopened, bookplate of Alexander Crum of Thornliebank. [cf. Nissen IVB 645]; Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds, London: George Bell, 1875, 3 volumes, 8°, second edition, 233 plates coloured from woodblocks, original publisher's cloth gilt (head and tail of spines bumped), t.e.g. [Nissen IVB 646] - and Morris's History of British Butterflies (London, 1870). (10)