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EDWARDS (George): A NATURAL HISTORY OF UNCOMMON BIRDS and of some other rare and undescribed animals [with] GLEANINGS OF NATURAL HISTORY, London, for the author, 1743-1764
7 vols., 4to (290 x 230mm.), titles and text in English and French, lists of subscribers in vols. IV, VI and VII, uncoloured plate of a Samoed and 362 FINE HAND-COLOURED ETCHED PLATES by and after Edwards (without frontispiece and portrait; some offsetting, mainly of plates onto text; one plate spotted), fine contemporary English straight-grained green morocco, sides with onlaid red morocco borders with gilt key pattern and other roll-tools, spines gilt in 6 compartments with double raised bands and red morocco onlays, g.e., armorial bookplate of C.J. Clarke
A FINE WELL BOUND COPY. Although published under the separate title Gleanings, the final three volumes are a continuation of the first four, the plates numbered consecutively and without these the work is considered incomplete. Nissen IVB 28-289; Fine Bird Books p. 73; Zimmer pp. 194-199; Mullens and Swan 195 (7)
7 vols., 4to (290 x 230mm.), titles and text in English and French, lists of subscribers in vols. IV, VI and VII, uncoloured plate of a Samoed and 362 FINE HAND-COLOURED ETCHED PLATES by and after Edwards (without frontispiece and portrait; some offsetting, mainly of plates onto text; one plate spotted), fine contemporary English straight-grained green morocco, sides with onlaid red morocco borders with gilt key pattern and other roll-tools, spines gilt in 6 compartments with double raised bands and red morocco onlays, g.e., armorial bookplate of C.J. Clarke
A FINE WELL BOUND COPY. Although published under the separate title Gleanings, the final three volumes are a continuation of the first four, the plates numbered consecutively and without these the work is considered incomplete. Nissen IVB 28-289; Fine Bird Books p. 73; Zimmer pp. 194-199; Mullens and Swan 195 (7)