MORRIS, Beverley Robinson.
British game birds and wildfowl.
London, Groombridge and sons (colophon: Benjamin Fawcett), [binding: 1889]. 4to. With 60 hand-coloured lithographed plates by Bernjamin Fawcett. Original publisher's blue cloth, with title and decorations in gold. IV, 254 pp.
€ 975
Later (fourth?) edition of an illustrated description of British game birds by Beverley Robinson Morris, the younger brother of the British ornithologist Francis Orpen Morris. He describes 69 species, of which 60 are shown on the hand-coloured plates, which occasionally show both male and female. Morris mentions how they look, where they can be found and how their eggs and nests look. If appropriate, he also mentions how the birds can be prepared to eat.
Only occasionally some small spots. Binding slightly rubbed along the extremities. Overall in very good condition. Anker 345; Mullens & Swann, pp. 414-415; Nissen, IVB 644; Zimmer II, p. 442-443 (first edition).
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