CLARK KENNEDY, Alexander W.M. The Birds of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire, Eton and London, Ingalton and Drake, and Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1868, 8°, FIRST EDITION, inscribed on verso of front free endpaper: "J.E. Harting with the best wishes of A.W.M. Clark Kennedy," with a 1p. autograph defense of his editing of the book by Harting, and a 2pp. a.l.s. to him from the wife of Clark Kennedy, thanking him for his commiseration on her husband's death and discussing his last grouse shoot, with further annotations throughout by Harting, 4 mounted hand-tinted photographs, original green cloth, upper cover with gilt vignette of a bustard (lightly rubbed). [Mullens & Swann p. 325]

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CLARK KENNEDY, Alexander W.M. The Birds of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire, Eton and London, Ingalton and Drake, and Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1868, 8°, FIRST EDITION, inscribed on verso of front free endpaper: "J.E. Harting with the best wishes of A.W.M. Clark Kennedy," with a 1p. autograph defense of his editing of the book by Harting, and a 2pp. a.l.s. to him from the wife of Clark Kennedy, thanking him for his commiseration on her husband's death and discussing his last grouse shoot, with further annotations throughout by Harting, 4 mounted hand-tinted photographs, original green cloth, upper cover with gilt vignette of a bustard (lightly rubbed). [Mullens & Swann p. 325]

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"FIRST [bird] book to be illustrated with PHOTOGRAPHS." (A.S.D. Pierssene, Country Life Oct. 1964.

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