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Ornithology from a Private European Collection
MEYER, Henry Leonard (1797-1864)
Illustrations of British Birds. London: Longman & Co., [1835-1841].
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MEYER, Henry Leonard (1797-1864)
Illustrations of British Birds. London: Longman & Co., [1835-1841].
First edition owned by the daughter of a subscriber of 'one of our most valuable illustrated works on ornithology' (Mullens and Swan). No two copies of this work are alike since different issues were published concurrently, with the result that the plates were often interchanged or duplicated. As Wood remarks: 'The whole subject is attended with the utmost difficulty'. Professor Hale's exhaustive study however now provides the bibliophile with a detailed guide to the history and collation of this impressive collection of ornithological plates. It is possible therefore to identify this copy as a first edition, since it includes not only the first issue title-pages, the plates of the Stonechat and Whinchat (vol. I, pl. 54), the Jay (vol. II, pl.44) and the Common Sandpiper (vol. III, pl.22) in their original states, but also the five hand-coloured lithographic plates of birds' eggs issued to purchasers of the first issue. Hale The Meyers' Illustrations of British Birds; Mullens and Swan 398; Nissen IVB, 627; Fine Bird Books (1990) p.123; Wood 462.
4 vols, folio (360 x 2600mm). 321 fine hand-coloured lithographic plates, including five of birds' eggs not called for in the lists of plates, with the 1841 replacement plates of the Blackbird and Heron bound as the frontispiece to vol. I and as plate 3 in vol. III respectively [‘The 1841 replacement plate[s] prepared for the third edition but circulated (probably unintentionally) to subscribers of the first edition’ (Hale plates 12 and 13)], 4 lithographic title-pages and 4 lithographic lists of plates (frontispiece to vol. III trimmed into caption, scattered variable spotting and browning, heavier to the plates of the Bearded Titmouse, Snowy Owl and Canada Owl in vol. I, Reed Bunting in vol. II, and at beginning of vol. III). Contemporary polished russia, covers with outer border of gilt foliate scroll tool, flat spines ruled in gilt into 6 compartments, lettered in the second and fourth, the others ornately gilt with borders composed of cornerpieces of volutes and foliate tools joined by single filet arcs enclosing centrepieces of volutes and flower stems with small circles, gilt turn-ins and edges, pale yellow glazed endpapers (extremities lightly rubbed, joints fractionally more heavily, upper cover of vol. III fractionally unevenly sunned). Provenance: Maria Alicia Joanna Nightingale (1835-1886, of Ludlow, Shropshire, daughter of Allen Jackson Nightingale [1786-1844], listed as a subscriber to this work; ink ownership inscription on front free endpaper dated January 26th 1867 with a note in another hand erroneously describing her as being the sister of Florence Nightingale, with a clipped signature of the latter pasted onto the endpaper) – Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1826-1880, naturalist; pasted onto front flyleaf of vol. II is autograph note signed ‘F. Buckland’ responding to a note dated 16 November 1867 from ?Louis Frase from ‘The Polytechnic’ on Regent Street regarding the accidental poisoning of birds) – Michael Tomkinson (1841-1921, businessman and collector, Mayor of Kidderminster in 1887 and Sheriff of Nottingham in 1892; armorial bookplate of Franche Hall, Worcestershire).
Illustrations of British Birds. London: Longman & Co., [1835-1841].
First edition owned by the daughter of a subscriber of 'one of our most valuable illustrated works on ornithology' (Mullens and Swan). No two copies of this work are alike since different issues were published concurrently, with the result that the plates were often interchanged or duplicated. As Wood remarks: 'The whole subject is attended with the utmost difficulty'. Professor Hale's exhaustive study however now provides the bibliophile with a detailed guide to the history and collation of this impressive collection of ornithological plates. It is possible therefore to identify this copy as a first edition, since it includes not only the first issue title-pages, the plates of the Stonechat and Whinchat (vol. I, pl. 54), the Jay (vol. II, pl.44) and the Common Sandpiper (vol. III, pl.22) in their original states, but also the five hand-coloured lithographic plates of birds' eggs issued to purchasers of the first issue. Hale The Meyers' Illustrations of British Birds; Mullens and Swan 398; Nissen IVB, 627; Fine Bird Books (1990) p.123; Wood 462.
4 vols, folio (360 x 2600mm). 321 fine hand-coloured lithographic plates, including five of birds' eggs not called for in the lists of plates, with the 1841 replacement plates of the Blackbird and Heron bound as the frontispiece to vol. I and as plate 3 in vol. III respectively [‘The 1841 replacement plate[s] prepared for the third edition but circulated (probably unintentionally) to subscribers of the first edition’ (Hale plates 12 and 13)], 4 lithographic title-pages and 4 lithographic lists of plates (frontispiece to vol. III trimmed into caption, scattered variable spotting and browning, heavier to the plates of the Bearded Titmouse, Snowy Owl and Canada Owl in vol. I, Reed Bunting in vol. II, and at beginning of vol. III). Contemporary polished russia, covers with outer border of gilt foliate scroll tool, flat spines ruled in gilt into 6 compartments, lettered in the second and fourth, the others ornately gilt with borders composed of cornerpieces of volutes and foliate tools joined by single filet arcs enclosing centrepieces of volutes and flower stems with small circles, gilt turn-ins and edges, pale yellow glazed endpapers (extremities lightly rubbed, joints fractionally more heavily, upper cover of vol. III fractionally unevenly sunned). Provenance: Maria Alicia Joanna Nightingale (1835-1886, of Ludlow, Shropshire, daughter of Allen Jackson Nightingale [1786-1844], listed as a subscriber to this work; ink ownership inscription on front free endpaper dated January 26th 1867 with a note in another hand erroneously describing her as being the sister of Florence Nightingale, with a clipped signature of the latter pasted onto the endpaper) – Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1826-1880, naturalist; pasted onto front flyleaf of vol. II is autograph note signed ‘F. Buckland’ responding to a note dated 16 November 1867 from ?Louis Frase from ‘The Polytechnic’ on Regent Street regarding the accidental poisoning of birds) – Michael Tomkinson (1841-1921, businessman and collector, Mayor of Kidderminster in 1887 and Sheriff of Nottingham in 1892; armorial bookplate of Franche Hall, Worcestershire).
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Mark Wiltshire
Specialist