The Birds of Great Britain

The Birds of Great Britain

The Birds of Great Britain

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Category

Colour Plate

Natural History

Illustrator

Gould, John

Author

Gould, John

Reference

430

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1862-1873, five volumes complete, half-morocco and cloth over boards, raised bands, spines in six panels, title in gilt to second panel, author and volume in gilt to third. Slightly rubbed to extremities. Internally bright, with almost no foxing to the plates, occasional light soiling, but generally clean. With 367 fine, handcoloured lithograph plates by Richter and Hart after Gould and Wolf, heightened with gum-arabic

Size

Folio

Condition

Good

Binding

Half Morocco and Cloth

Publish Place

London

Publish Year

1862

Edition

First Edition

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