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JOHN GUILLE MILLAIS
Game Birds and Shooting-Sketches. London: Henry Sotheran, 1892. 4to (386 x 302mm), frontispiece portrait of Thomas Bewick and 34 plates after Millais, including 16 chromolithographs, illustrations. (Some scattered light, mainly marginal, spotting.) Contemporary red straight-grained half morocco gilt, top edge gilt (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Nissen IVB 634; Schwerdt II, 27 (erroneously calling for 15 coloured plates).
The Natural History of British Game Birds. London: Longmans, Green, 1909. Folio, half-title, 17 photogravures, 2 photographic illustrations (on one plate) and 18 coloured plates, after Millais and Thorburn. (Light mainly marginal spotting.) Original russet and red cloth gilt, top edges gilt (spine unevenly faded). Provenance: C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate). NO. 371 OF 550 COPIES. Nissen IVB 636; Schwerdt II, 28; and 13 other vols. of ornithology. (15)
Game Birds and Shooting-Sketches. London: Henry Sotheran, 1892. 4to (386 x 302mm), frontispiece portrait of Thomas Bewick and 34 plates after Millais, including 16 chromolithographs, illustrations. (Some scattered light, mainly marginal, spotting.) Contemporary red straight-grained half morocco gilt, top edge gilt (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Nissen IVB 634; Schwerdt II, 27 (erroneously calling for 15 coloured plates).
The Natural History of British Game Birds. London: Longmans, Green, 1909. Folio, half-title, 17 photogravures, 2 photographic illustrations (on one plate) and 18 coloured plates, after Millais and Thorburn. (Light mainly marginal spotting.) Original russet and red cloth gilt, top edges gilt (spine unevenly faded). Provenance: C.F.G.R. Schwerdt (bookplate). NO. 371 OF 550 COPIES. Nissen IVB 636; Schwerdt II, 28; and 13 other vols. of ornithology. (15)