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On the Instructions of the Executors of the Late David Liddell-Grainger Esq., Removed from Ayton Castle, Berwickshire
GREENE, William. Parrots in Captivity. London: George Bell, 1884-87. 3 volumes, 8° (252 x 174mm). 81 plates, printed in colours from woodblocks by Fawcett after A.F. Lydon. (One plate in vol. III with very short marginal tear, neatly repaired without loss, occasional light spotting to endpapers.) Original dark blue-green cloth, covers panelled in blind with gilt centrepieces to upper covers.
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GREENE, William. Parrots in Captivity. London: George Bell, 1884-87. 3 volumes, 8° (252 x 174mm). 81 plates, printed in colours from woodblocks by Fawcett after A.F. Lydon. (One plate in vol. III with very short marginal tear, neatly repaired without loss, occasional light spotting to endpapers.) Original dark blue-green cloth, covers panelled in blind with gilt centrepieces to upper covers.
AN EXTREMELY FINE COPY but without the rare fourth volume, parts 1 & 2 (begun in 1888). Nissen IVB 393; Mullens & Swann p.252; Wood p.363; Zimmer p.274.
Greene, W. (3)
AN EXTREMELY FINE COPY but without the rare fourth volume, parts 1 & 2 (begun in 1888). Nissen IVB 393; Mullens & Swann p.252; Wood p.363; Zimmer p.274.
Greene, W. (3)