John Guille Millais | The natural history of British game birds, 1909

John Guille Millais

The natural history of British game birds. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1909

FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 220 OF 550 COPIES, folio (400 x 300mm.), 18 chromolithographed plates, 17 photogravures, 2 illustrations, contemporary half morocco by Best and Co.

LITERATURE:

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PROVENANCE:

John Talbot Clifton (1868-1924) of Lytham Hall, Lancashiore and Kildalton Castle, Islay, armorial bookplate; Clifton was prodigious explorer and hunter, who once dined on mammoth thawed from Arctic permafrost