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BEVERLEY ROBINSON MORRIS
British Game Birds and Wildfowl, London: Groombridge and Sons, [1873]. 4° (302 x 237mm). 58 hand-coloured wood-engraved plates by Benjamin Fawcett only (of 60, lacking Sand Grouse and Brown Snipe). (4 plates with short closed tears, preliminaries torn with loss, a few foredges frayed, occasional spotting and dampstaining). Contemporary half black morocco (upper cover warped and dampstained, rubbed and scuffed, upper hinges broken).
Second edition. Anker 345; Sitwell Fine Bird Books p.95; Mullens & Swann p.414; Nissen IVB 644; Zimmer 442. Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.
British Game Birds and Wildfowl, London: Groombridge and Sons, [1873]. 4° (302 x 237mm). 58 hand-coloured wood-engraved plates by Benjamin Fawcett only (of 60, lacking Sand Grouse and Brown Snipe). (4 plates with short closed tears, preliminaries torn with loss, a few foredges frayed, occasional spotting and dampstaining). Contemporary half black morocco (upper cover warped and dampstained, rubbed and scuffed, upper hinges broken).
Second edition. Anker 345; Sitwell Fine Bird Books p.95; Mullens & Swann p.414; Nissen IVB 644; Zimmer 442. Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.
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