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PERROTT, Charlotte Louisa Emily (circa 1790-1836). A Selection of British Birds. London: Robert Havell, 1835.
Part I (all published), large 2° (500 x 325mm). 5 hand-coloured engraved plates by Robert Havell after Mrs.Perrott, letterpress 'preface' and 4 leaves of text (no text to accompany the 'Blue Titmouse'), 2 smaller format advertisment leaves for other Havell publications bound-in. Stitched within original buff paper wrappers, engraved title on upper cover (slightly soiled, small tears to extremities), contained within modern purple morocco box gilt, the upper cover with the title blocked in gilt. Provenance: Sale: Christie's 21 June 1978. Sold ¨4800.
EXTREMELY RARE, ONE OF FOUR KNOWN COPIES: one copy at Yale; a second in the Hereford and Worcestershire county library; a third at the Radcliffe Science library in Oxford and the present copy (the only copy to remain in private hands). Nissen refers to an article by H.S.Gladstone in the journal British Birds for 1939-40, where he describes what was then the only known copy in the library of the Worcester Natural History Society (now in the Hereford and Worcestershire county library). The article prompted the announcment, in 1941, of the discovery of this copy. The plates are of a high standard and the publication was planned to have been on a quite lavish scale (priced at 14s plain or 1 guinea coloured per part), however, the death of Mrs.Perrott in Worcester in August 1836 brought the work to an abrupt halt. The subjects of the plates are: Cock; Ring Dove Woodpigeon; Raven; Whinchat; Blue Titmouse. Fine Bird Books p.80 ("5 very fine hand-coloured engravings. Extremely rare."); Nissen IVB 716a.
Part I (all published), large 2° (500 x 325mm). 5 hand-coloured engraved plates by Robert Havell after Mrs.Perrott, letterpress 'preface' and 4 leaves of text (no text to accompany the 'Blue Titmouse'), 2 smaller format advertisment leaves for other Havell publications bound-in. Stitched within original buff paper wrappers, engraved title on upper cover (slightly soiled, small tears to extremities), contained within modern purple morocco box gilt, the upper cover with the title blocked in gilt. Provenance: Sale: Christie's 21 June 1978. Sold ¨4800.
EXTREMELY RARE, ONE OF FOUR KNOWN COPIES: one copy at Yale; a second in the Hereford and Worcestershire county library; a third at the Radcliffe Science library in Oxford and the present copy (the only copy to remain in private hands). Nissen refers to an article by H.S.Gladstone in the journal British Birds for 1939-40, where he describes what was then the only known copy in the library of the Worcester Natural History Society (now in the Hereford and Worcestershire county library). The article prompted the announcment, in 1941, of the discovery of this copy. The plates are of a high standard and the publication was planned to have been on a quite lavish scale (priced at 14s plain or 1 guinea coloured per part), however, the death of Mrs.Perrott in Worcester in August 1836 brought the work to an abrupt halt. The subjects of the plates are: Cock; Ring Dove Woodpigeon; Raven; Whinchat; Blue Titmouse. Fine Bird Books p.80 ("5 very fine hand-coloured engravings. Extremely rare."); Nissen IVB 716a.